I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

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.

A novel is a performance you have to plan.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

I always want to try and see what the appeal is in anything. It's the healthiest and most honest approach.