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I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right.

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

I'm super OCD, so everything is clean.

Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.

I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.