To be able to research directly from firefighters makes all the difference in the world in the authenticity of a performance.

Chicago has quickly become one of my favorite places in the world.

I really love yoga. I love the mindfulness of it, where not only are you exercising your body, but you're also building that mind/body connection as far as being aware of every movement - what your body's doing, how your body's feeling.

Every character brings new light to a different part of myself, which is something I love about every role I get to play.

The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

I work from home a lot. I think I get as much work done at the office as at home, and I'm used to working with people who don't work in the office. I don't really care where they are, even if they're on a banana leaf somewhere. If they deliver their work, I am completely fine. I don't need someone sitting at their desk to produce.

I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.