I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.

Oddly enough, even though our show is structured around women, our target audience is women, I get more calls from men every night than women.

It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling back the layers, and I find out they've been listening to me for 10 or 15 years, and they know every lyric to every sappy song.

Music is the language of the angels. You can hear just one or two chords, one or two notes of a song, and bam - you're right back there, you're right back in that moment, you're back in that day, you're back at that prom, you're back in the car.

I want to show the world that we have the best fighters. Our motto is, 'Death is better than second place.'

Every day, it was the same: school, homework, farm work, training. Getting hurt or dying might've been better than the life I was living.

Death's in the good-bye.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.