The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.

With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted to be someone who could sell a lot of books.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.