Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes? It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes along who truly understands, who has the gift to transfer all those needs and emotions into music.

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.

If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

My boyfriend and I are badasses.

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].