“How did I make my character? Ok, very briefly, hm. Wizards are cool. Musicians are cool. And so I put those together. And I made him a little bit of an asshole, because culturally we aprove of that in men. And I gave him red hair, because I think that it would be cool to have red hair.”
Patrick Rothfuss about Kvothe on the JoCo Cruise 2017 (beginning of the video).