I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

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.

Do couples in arranged marriage actually fall in love

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

Some days I’mtrying to forcea smile sohard it feelslike I mightshit my pants

Eat some food.

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

I am not who I would like to be, It's just who I am right now.

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.