Guilt loves the passive.

Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.

If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.

Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.

To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.

Every big prize demands a hefty price.

TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: "It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.

That was a mistake, I guess, going out to California. They have these things called guidance counselors in high school. They drink a lot of herbal tea.

There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up, and their perspective. It's become much more diverse.

Want to be one of a kind? Be yourself.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do. Don't beat yourself up about it.

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well.

I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!