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

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

When you start becoming a pop star, you think, Hold on a second, maybe my life is different now - maybe all these people that I thought of as celebrities are going to be normal, and when I walk into a room I'm going to be really cool and so is everyone else. But that's not what happens at all - I was awkward, and then I just retreated from any social engagement for about a year.

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.

Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.

One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

I don't believe in anything blindly supernatural.