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.

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

I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

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

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.

It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.