I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.

As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

There's something about being a woman and being able to dress up in men's clothing, so to speak.

There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.

I find N.Y. very inspiring; there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in N.Y. like nowhere else.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.