Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and….

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously..

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination..

Less bitching...more learning..

There's not a word in the Quran or the Hadith that requires that women cover their faces. To the contrary, the only requirement is that they uncover ….

The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting, I push myself so I am at the edge o….

If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional..

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books..

I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything..

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not..

Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over anything..

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with..

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got….

If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough . Just do it. Be genero….

When it's your time, it is your time..

I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again..

As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop..

I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it wa….

When you create a movie, you create something in your image..

Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded..

Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you..