I'm certainly not a trained singer. The only place I could probably carry a tune is my shower.

That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin.

I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.

I'm certainly not a trained singer. The only place I could probably carry a tune is my shower.

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.