Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just think alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. I'm sure I'll start thinking now about all the people I know who don't believe, that I quite like. We can still go have a pint. Not the Chardonnay, though.

Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years

Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.