I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.

Firefighting inherently is a dangerous occupation.

In terms of people who we call heroes - and I don't tend to like that term, and firefighters don't consider themselves heroes - but if you look at their job description, they are. Their job is to straight up save people.

I hate staying in resorts. When I go on holiday, I like to stay in crappy places with great surf.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

Every single path is so different, but I would definitely say that the idea of what a writer is or should be is not a thing anymore. Everyone is redefining publishing, writing, and storytelling in general.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.