It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

Sometimes you just want to write a party song.

A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.

But then I remembered: the universe was closed, and so very small. There was really nowhere else to go.

My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.

I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.