I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.

I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.

Music has been more, you know, the only thing I've ever known.

The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.

I just never doubted myself. I always knew I was going to do something.

I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic.

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

He still wasn't looking at me, which meant I was still in trouble. I swear, sometimes this partnership is like being married. We fight all the time and neither one of us is getting married.

Be selfish enough to have self love, self worth and self respect.

The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

What's a farmer's market without some guy singing Here Comes The Sun in a way that makes you wish the sun would stop coming up.

I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.

If you fall in love, it's because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.