Initially I started writing because I felt like I didn't fit in. I just moved to a new school and I felt quite lonely. I think that's where it all started for me.

I don't know what happens when you die. I've never been dead. I'm just interested.

There’s nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they’re there because they understand.

I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar.

He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.

If you want to achieve success, there cannot be a Plan B.

That someone would mourn her death made her want to live in the fiercest way.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.

To separate the purpose of a business from the purpose of people who are in the business is, I think, not a good thing.

The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity.