I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.

Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!

Novelists invent characters

In terms of being a famous person, it hasn't changed anything. It's not important for me.

I hadn't mentioned, but Ching Shih is a pretty villainous character. She is a real person, but she was a pirate commander, so she probably murdered a lot of people.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

I'd rather sit in bed and watch TV. All of my ex-boyfriends, of course, not Paris, would be like, 'What's the problem? You're so not sexual.'