I had trouble getting jeans when I was growing up. I had little skinny legs and this booty that came out of nowhere.

Writing is the best way to get your mind clear. It's also a great way to explain your past or what you hope for the future.

I obviously want a safe world for everybody if we're getting really deep, but my safe and happy place is always going to be music.

I wouldn't say I'm a rebel, but I do like pushing the limits sometimes.

With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.

The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.

Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes.

I do think there's no substitute for really hard work. But I think the thing that launched my career at AT&T, I had a pretty tragic thing happen in my family. My sister died, and I was leading a big team at the time, and I had to take time off.