I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.

Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

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.