Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

Shame is the shadow of love.

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.