In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.
“I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.”
“Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.”