There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood.

The best thing to do is just know that there's a big difference between style and fashion, and that one doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other.

Leopard print has been my thing forever! When I was a teenager my entire room was done in leopard print - it's timeless, chic, and always in style. When in doubt... leopard!

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

I always feel pressure. If you don't feel nervous, that means you don't care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I've always said the day I'm not nervous playing is the day I quit.

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.