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I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.

When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.

I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.

If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyone is great and wonderful and perfect. I wanted to write it so that you're not really sure who the haves are. You look at Hanna, and you see that she doesn't have much, but she has great faith.

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.