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.

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.

It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.