While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.

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.

People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.

I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.