Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose.

While every chapter should have goals to further the plot and delve our readers deeper into our world, there must be one goal above all else: Emotional Impact.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people."

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.