Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please find me.

Don't be so busy missing people who left that you miss the people that are standing right in front of you.

I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don’t care how condescending that sounds, it’s true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always.

You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two

I think the thing I'm most excited about is the fact that I was able to, for the most part, change pitchers' mindsets about what kind of hitter I am.

Greed is too flimsy to flawed

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

I hate loneliness, but it loves me.