I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

Everybody wants to be your friend when you have something that they want.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive.

The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating.

I live right in the middle of nowhere and I thoroughly enjoy it.