Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live in worlds that you don't have to be thinking about that all the time. I don't see myself writing Upton Sinclair books. My books are to entertain, although to me, entertainment is to make you feel sadness or to get in touch with your own pain - or fear, or to remember somebody who has gone missing from your life. That's my calling.

If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.

I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.