The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.

Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem.

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

I found many ways around my dyslexia, but I still have trouble transforming words into sounds. I have to memorize and rehearse before reading anything aloud to avoid embarrassing myself by mispronouncing words.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.

I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.

I reached a place where I wanted to make more music, but I didn't know what I wanted. So I stopped labeling music by genre and just got into a studio to be creative. Now I write whatever feels instinctive.