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

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.

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

I think that the internet is a beast of burden.

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.

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

The main reason we understand what we're doing is because we're the individuals doing it. One of the things that surprises me is that all the songs are about me, and it's cool that people care.