I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.

Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.

Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in many different forms. I think of myself as the kind of person who writes, rather than as one kind of writer or another.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Criticism, maybe cynicism, is just rampant in music, in creativity. Everybody has a perception and a set of opinions based on what that piece of music is doing to them internally.