The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.
I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone.

