A novel is a performance you have to plan.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.

As I believe—I am, I can, I know.

Why does it have to come down to choosing just one man, when no one man can give me everything I want?

Don't shoot fast, shoot good.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.

They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.

I am but a student... a willing student.

When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.