Writing catchy pop songs is a super-minor superpower, but it's mine.

Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.

I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.

Music is always the first thing I notice when I go someplace new.

Sad songs are not my strong suit. All the songs that have saved my life make you feel like driving with the top down or dancing in your room with your best friend.

Passion is never pathetic.

The threat of failure shouldn't kill the fun of dreaming.

The way she says kiss, it sounds different. Like she invented the word specifically for the song.

Electricity crackles from her lips to mine and I'm stunned it's not visible.

They are kissing—finally, extravagantly, like it's the first thirty seconds of a kissing competition and they can't imagine they'll ever get tired.

Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.

Those who win never give up.Those who give up never win.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief

For happy are the merciful for they shall, too, know mercy.

You can't muffle a real good time.

As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.