You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Sneakers are not my thing.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

People get jealous and use whatever information they have to make you feel bad and themselves feel better.

If you want to create, you'll create.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.

When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind of narrative fundamentalist in many ways.

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.