I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

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.

Awaken soul, revive spirit.

Variety in your diet is health in your life.

I’m quite certain offering to carry out a contract killing violates at least two of Emily Post’s etiquette rules.”--Sloane Barrett, Killer Curves

If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love.

He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.

It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

I provided all my emails that could possibly be work related [to FBI].

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.