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For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts, and let it happen naturally. I write what I feel.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.

Where your life leads you, you must go

I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.