I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses

Honestly, I love stealing things.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

Places like Ministry of Sound are too druggie for me. Smaller, local places are where it's at for me.

There is nothing wrong with having a good job, there is nothing wrong with having a nice house, there is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong when that is your goal.

All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.

What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.