The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

'Crash' came from personal experience. I saw things inside me from living in L.A. that made me uncomfortable. I saw horrible things in people and saw terrible things in myself. I saw a black director completely humiliated, but the three people around me just thought it was funny. 'No,' I said, 'that is selling your soul.'

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

I don't really know how to describe my personal style.