I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

[C]reative living is a path for the brave.

...men are poor soldiers in love's war. And it is a war-one that never ends.

I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.

You'll lose about two million brain cells every minute that goes by.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.