I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

Selfishness is the absence of selflessness

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

Jesus loves hidden souls. A hidden flower is the most fragrant. I must strive to make the interior of my soul a resting place for the Heart of Jesus.

Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

If you want to be somebody in this world, don't fear any sacrifice it will be recommended for you to be who you want

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.