I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

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.

To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.

Always remember the primary purpose of your life is living in tune with your energy pattern, find the true expression for the energy and go with the flow!

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.