My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

Honestly, I find so many fields - fashion, art, music - totally boring and restricting if you just stick to one of them and try so hard to fit into that thing.

I think imagination is a crazy thing, and that's what makes the world go around.

I've got my advanced scuba diving license. I'm playing tennis and exercising. I ride my bike everywhere. I've been finding new things. I've been more creative in music and doing different videos. And just meeting different people and being around and present. I'm wonderful when I'm just on nothing.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.