Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.

I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19.

The fact that I'm still constantly smiling is a remarkable thing, but I love getting out on the road, meeting my fans. I love hearing them say wonderful things and I love being able to thank them in person for reading me.

A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.