Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.

I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.

We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?

I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.