I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.

I would never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited.

I tend to be a very logical, practical person.

I think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but what's the same, and what links us to the past.

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

I think [it's necessary to accept] things that are just true about yourself: These are my faults, these are the things I'm good at, this is where I came from, this is where I didn't come from. I think happy people are the ones who have made peace with those truths and acknowledged them, and learned to use them and live with them.