When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

I do have love for Japan. At the same time, I have a complex relationship with Japan because I'm Korean. But I think it shows the strength of a country when you can talk about the past transparently.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs.

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.