You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.

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.

Non sapevo controllare i sentimenti, li sentivo sempre troppo prepotenti e forti e mi ferivano.

Impulsive passion please set me free.

It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.

The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.

It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others

Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.