One thing I've never been accused of is slowly coming into something. I always go full on (and ask) "Now how do we make this work?"

What footprint do you want to be known for? (It's) the legacy and the journey that you're on. Trust in yourself. Trust in the passion you have (inside) yourself.

Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis!" I just couldn't shut (it) off.

Don't rely on the money to drive you. Allow the passion to drive you and allow people to come into your life that love you the most and (who want to) enjoy that journey with you.

If you can't listen to people, they hardly will follow you.

Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers and writer are linked by the commonality of human experience.

Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.

Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.

Both America and Britain understand that governments must be responsive to everyday working people, that governments must represent their own citizens.

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted.

Extraordinary accomplishments are only achieved when we are able to overcome extraordinary challenges.

Every change is being forced upon us.

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.