The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.

Models are what they are... people who model clothing, that's all.

Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

I do love wearing heels but my feet can't be in them all day long. I want to have fun and dance so I need to be comfortable.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.

My greatest achievement so far is that I've been able to continue with my normal life. I love what I do, but more so, I'm glad to have people who care about me close by.

I think in most sports sometimes you need a little luck for the ball or calls to roll your way.

My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.

Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.

I wasn't used to looking ahead. Not like Jack. Maybe that was why he had that ready grin. I could see through the dust, but he could see through time, and he didn't even need magic to do it.

I'm lucky that people feel comfortable sharing things with me.

We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.

Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! It’s earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful, and — Oh, Hell — just gorgeously written!