Art Alexakis

If you can't say it in three minutes, I don't want to know about it.

I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.