People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.
If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.