I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.

Music has been more, you know, the only thing I've ever known.

The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.

I just never doubted myself. I always knew I was going to do something.

I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic.

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.

The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.

This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.

Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.