I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, Ive kinda gotten over, I guess Im saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely shallow. I haven't spoken to myself since.