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 realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.

The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.

I love every bone in a woman's body, especially mine.

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.