'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands and attended gigs: the anti-hipster's defence against 'the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties.'
People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves.
There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.
I am generally wary of the demand for 'likeability' in fiction, which I think is a bastardisation of the demand of identification - itself something of a suspect notion.
I'm not one to probe my limitations.
I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world.
I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.
The alchemy of a fight card is a mysterious thing. Even the most meticulous matchmaking can sometimes misfire.
Modern sport can be an ugly convergence of commerce and celebrity, but it still has the capacity to move a crowd.
It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.
I was introduced to fighting by my brother - he's a tattooer, a tough guy - and I completely fell in love with it. I was watching fights on YouTube all the time. I would go to parties to watch UFC fights.
There's something about being a woman and being able to dress up in men's clothing, so to speak.
In a fight, you don't need much context for drama. You watch a fight, and that's it.
One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.
It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.
I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.
It's hard, but I try not to think of happiness as either pending or in the past.
I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.
There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.
The canon is dominated by books written by men, about men, and for men - the male voice is therefore not a particularly difficult one to impersonate.
