I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.
Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.
I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.
I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'
I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.
I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.
I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.
I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.
I love to go hiking. I hike every day for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours in the hills around LA. I go to the gym every day, too.
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.
I always wear a pair of colored jeans and fun boots. I have a really cute pair of stars-and-stripes Converse, and I love wearing all my bright Nike shoes.
In Scotland, I have a huge barn full of woodworking tools. I love working with my hands. I basically just make myself bleed a lot. I'm very accident-prone.
I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.
And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
