I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.

You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.