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My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
My teachers probably tried to get me interested in other things at school, but I was very young when I decided that I wanted to act. By the time I was 12, I was hell-bent on it.
There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.
The artists that I relate to and love the most are the ones where I can listen to the record, and I can know them better, and for me, that's writing it.
I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
