Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!

I have become more deeply aware of the enormous problems that face our world today, and the dangerous trends which seem to beleading our world to the brink of Armageddon.

The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.