My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

When you're big you don't need a reason to sweat. You don't, right? My friends cannot grab a hold of this concept. They come up to me all the time like Jeez! What have you been doing? What are ya jumpin rope in the attic?! Well, I peeled an orange.. about an hour ago. Why, what's up?

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.