There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.

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

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

What's funny is that people think, "Well there has to be something more than wrestling, because wrestling has such an absurd quality to it." But if you tell a love story, people don't ask what else is in there. They say, "Oh, it's just a love story." All stories have many levels, but these ones show their hand and say, "You might want to look a little deeper."

It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.