People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

I love being in the gym and am training six days a week; I do a lot of high-intensity interval training so that my heart rate gets really high, and I practice, as I'm doing that, taking really deep breaths, and that really helps in a song and in a style of music where you have to sing long, flowing lines.

When you are travelling, there's romance, and there's music.

It's such a lovely feeling to be in love, to marry the person you love and finally to be with that person. I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids, etc. Love never ends, na?

I am no more the 'chocolate boy.' Still, romance is always going to be a part of my life.