What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

There's no way that a fan of The Darkness, based on what we did on the last record, is not going to love this record even more than the first one.

[RTB isn't an ordinary producer in the same way that The Darkness aren't an ordinary band. He and the band were introduced in Los Angeles, instantly bonded over a mutual love of rock and were able to start assembling the album together.] Roy Thomas Baker is a genius, that's all there is to say about it. ... It's been a privilege to watch that man work, his ear is perfect, his instinct fabulous.

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.