The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

I'd love to dive into a comedy.

I read somewhere that when I go on stage, people realize that they're not me and they feel better. When I walk off the stage, people know who I really am. I'm not saying it's great comedy, cool comedy or better comedy - but that's what I do, and I do it first for myself.

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.