“The first novel was my attempt to bring poetry’s ethos into the novel form. The novel is the youngest form; it’s a young genre. Because it’s so...
“We’re all part of the same bag of molecules. If you care about anything—like your family, your community, or your ecosystem—then we should try...
“When you’re a writer, you live in dreamtime. It’s kind of like a kite. You begin with your own story, and the higher it goes, it starts to take off...
“My friends and I will be having a wonderful moment—sunset, driving back from Malibu—and they’re like, we all know you’re going to write a song about...
The composers that I know spend time alone and sing to themselves. It’s wonderful because they would never have heard those sounds if...