I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Thoughts are things that we can't see or feel yet.

Jane sneezed three hundred dollars' worth of coke into the air.Krishna's black eyes seem to have mirrors in them. She glances at me with a smile as big as the Cheshire Cat's.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

The big opportunity - and where the most disruption is - is in local media.