“Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.”

“We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.”

“All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.”

“Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.”

“Sometimes I’ll read a book and feel it was written just for me. Then I’ll flip the book over to look at the cover to see who wrote it, only to discover that it feels like it was written for me because it was written by me.”

“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”