When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.
“But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.”
“To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.”