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I look at tattoos as a commitment to life.

Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.

I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I'm very spontaneous about what I get.

I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.

The thing that probably trips me up the most are people getting tattoos of stuff that I've designed in my books. That always spins me out in a weird way. It seems like such a permanent commitment to something I've done. I don't know that I could do that for anyone else.

You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'

Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.

There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, 'Maybe just a tiny one.'

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

I have no real tattoos. I wear my bruises and tons of scars as my tattoos.