It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

You don't write. You get out of the way.

This is not a meritocracy.

Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.

You were a luminescent star in the darkened sky that became my universe.

I like to travel in jeans because I don't want to wallow around in my suit, you know? They cost too much. Jeans are comfortable.

Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

...Your angry and jealous and in the mood to do some forceful dentistry

No one really knows me. People think they know me.

When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy too. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy.

I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.

Mom says it's because she has PMS. Do you even know what that means? "I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome

A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.