Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Only you can make yourself strong. Nobody else can do it for you.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.

There is no time like the present.

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

I rarely listen to commercial radio, and when I do, I'm shocked by how many ads there are, and how annoying they are, and how bad the radio station usually is.