Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden

I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year