You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

The Every Single Women to whom I met they are not happy with their men, and the men either not happy with their women!

The only thing I fear is a world where injustice stands and hate possesses our hearts.

You don’t always have to take it all on, either, you know. The weight of the world. The responsibility for everyone else’s problems. Sometimes it’s okay to let somebody else worry about you.

I always found I was in the best of company, alone.

I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.

Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan.

I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.

Еhe older you get, the more baggage you have, and the harder it is to just split.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.