When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.
'Say Her Name' was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn't trying to do anything except write a book for Aura - a book that I thought I had to write.
I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.
My wife is cool enough to let me write about personal things, to be a songwriter exploring the shadowy sides of love.
I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.
I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy me too much.