When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
You can close your eyes if you want. Sometimes things are less scary.
Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.
There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.
Know this: you can start over, each morning.
I kinda always wanted to be an ant.
Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.
I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.
As a parent, all you want is for your kids to be safe but you don’t want to be over-protective and so you know that at some stage, they’re going to make their own mistakes and get hurt emotionally when all you want to do is protect them from that.
I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.
They must be doing something right up there in Canada.