I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

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

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.

There is always much to be learned from bad times, and to many people who prosper, they get good lessons from bad times inorder to find the way out.

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear so don't look and they'll stay farther away than you expect they would.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Most TV shows are about strong characters and strong actors, and we certainly have those.

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

I've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure.

I was brought up to question things, but I was always a really quiet and shy child.

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.