I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
“I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.”