Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit and he learned fast.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don't really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.