Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.