I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

The book is about zombies, in that it is the over-arching theme, but what's going on is the story of these people and how these survivors deal. I think that's so much more of an interesting story, and that's what really gets and hooks these readers into the book and the show. It's a mix of fans of drama, fans of AMC, fans of horror and fans of Frank [Darabont]. It's a lot of people just coming together and realizing a genre doesn't have to be fixed in one specific detail.

Yeah, it's been pretty gnarly. It's fun. It can only be fun, unless you're really squirmy about that. Honestly, during that guts episode, they didn't tell Andrew and I anything. They just put trenchcoats on us and said, "All right, just stand right here and we're going to put this stuff on you."

I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.

If anything, the way that you feel is a direct indicator of how far we've come from our symbiotic relationship with nature. In that way, when someone hangs a mirror to every single blemish that's on us, it makes you really reassess what your morals are.

I'm not much of a horror fan. When it comes to ghost stuff and demon stuff, I can't watch that.

I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.