There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

God doesnt give you something, someone else is suppose to have.

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.

And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.

A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.

I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.