Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.

Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.

Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.

Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.

Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.

Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them onto the page, then call them characters.

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world

I’m not a good kid. Yeah, look, I’m just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.A lousy piece of paper. That’s me.A piece of paper that’s waiting to be torn up.

There is no politically neutral fence available for us to sit on, and our attempts to do so have the consequence (intended or not) of supporting the existing political system.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

Nothing is worse than going home and having not played a gig.

In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.