I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

I love you is eight letters...then again, so is bullshit.

I have a big heart and a small brain.

Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

Women are always beautiful.

I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas

Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

Every girl has something beautiful in her soul. It doesn't matter if she's fat or thin. That has nothing to do with her personality.

War would end if the dead could return.

Ultimately, then, creativity and originality lie not in the avoidance of established forms but in the imaginative use of them.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.

I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.

Fan feedback going from a box of letters once every few months to literally tweeting while the show is airing. We are able to get a much quicker response to the choices we're making as storytellers.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

Satan probably wouldn't have talked so big if God had been his wife.

It's not what you are in Hollywood - it's what people think you are.