Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.

Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.