Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.
I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly
I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.
I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.
Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.
I have absurdly vivid dreams.
That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.
Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we must never forget or abandon.
I think that I have come at it backwards in a way because a lot of what I'm doing as a songwriter is not incredibly intentional. There's a moment that happens which creates the song or the actual idea for a song, and then I'm like, "Oh, it's this kind of song. "
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.