The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
In this age of vampires, what I love about 'True Blood' the most is that it's a post-modern take on it. 'Sookie Stackhouse' series author Charlaine Harris and 'True Blood' creator Alan Ball turned that whole mythology upside-down... It's not just about vampires. It's about a lot of different things.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.