Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you.

I'm not really a very social person. It exhausts me when I'm out.

I care about making music and I care about creating experiences for my fans with my music and my videos and my performances.

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.

When people have expectations, you're going to make a lot of them upset - when in fact I'm not trying to represent anybody but myself.

Everyone has to learn to work with people - it's part of being an adult, too.

I'd rather have a lot of little donations than a couple big ones. That shows that people care and are giving what they can.

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really, " he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

Being alone is blissful when you want to...It's terrible when you are forced to..!

I tell them stars have never hurt me, I wish I could say the same about people.

This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don't allow it to be all-consuming when there's so much more to embrace.

I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

It's no good giving my heart and my Soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.