I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

Comparison leads to violence.

Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, "Attention must be paid." It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.