I suppose I view my behavior in such a unique way. I frame it as an artist and maybe kind of make excuses for it. I suppose I romanticize my own life when I write. I always try to think whether it actually is quite romantic.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.

I need to keep my dancing on the right side of weird, otherwise it might get a bit like "American Idol."

People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that's not true - it's that we have nothing to die for.

When I was young I was one of those kids that got pulled onstage at a Green Day concert. That was pretty awesome.

There's a point when you're dating someone where you become aware of all the things you kind of thought you couldn't depart from. You kind of build all of these nostalgias and sort of antiquated memories in your mind, and when you're at the point during the breakup, you realise, "you know what, it actually takes a bit more than all this bullshit".