There's going to be ups and downs and that you have to be okay with the downs too and embrace them just as much because they will teach you something..

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other..

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone..

It's the sick and twisted male fantasy that we want classy ladies out in the world that make us look good, but in the bedroom, men want subservient w….

With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced to do for lack of other alternative, the fa….

I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, ….

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong..

If I write about something that I've experienced and somebody goes, "Oh my God, I feel the exact same way," then both of us are connected, and when y….

I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go s….

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid..

The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the mouth of somebody else that….

More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a novel, let alone a….

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical..

It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply d….

Getting out on stage and playing music for people feels great when people are cheering for you, that's obviously really exciting. But what's most exc….

I think the only thing that we even have a small tangent of reality or truth about is right now - the moment that is happening right this second. Eve….

I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure o….

I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second and live in the shoes of a character, which is ….

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the ….

To say, "It used to be better," nobody can say, "Well, no it wasn't." It's like telling a story that is self-aggrandizing about someone who has passe….