People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.

While I was writing the songs for 'Fuzz Universe,' I was immersing myself in Bulgarian Female Choir music, Baroque lute and violin pieces, Johnny Cash songs about trains, cows, mules, and mining coal, the Bee Gees, and Ronnie James Dio.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.