I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work and it creates this strange connection. It's really a way of strangers communicating through this third thing, which is a body of work. But really, I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.

I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.

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.

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

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.