"I got on a BEACH BOYS kick again about six months ago. I gew up in Southern California; to me, this songs speaks to a higher power."

"Apart from this being a universal nostalgic blast from the past, it always gets a party started. Whenever I DJ I always start my set with it."

"Sometimes I get jealous when I’m reading a great book by a younger writer. But White Tiger is so good I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga."

"“They’re directed by Godfrey Reggio, with a soundtrack by Phillip Glass, and they’re just three-hour-long never-ending loops of psychedelic imagery. I remember I was pranging out after a gig once and I couldn’t sleep, so I watched six hours of it back to back."

"Honestly, I could choose anything by Orwell. I read him as a teen and loved him. That advice of his about good prose being like a window pane? I always have that in the back of my mind. It jibes with how I instinctively feel about writing. "