I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

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.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.Carl Jungfound in David Eagleman's book: Incognito

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.

Stop me when I'm making too much sense.

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.

All hoods make not monks.