Basically, a band's first record is them coming together and really learning everything, and then, after they're on the road and really become a unit, the next record slams.

I did a lot of great things in the past, but I live for today and for the future.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

If you live in the past, you've got no future.

The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world.

I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

I do think about marriage, but it's not the end-all goal.