Mickey Spillane

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.