It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something. . . . My theory is a children's book. . . can be just for fun.
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
Market prices are always wrong.
I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think that would be a lot of fun.
We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.
It was like I had evolved to a certain stage where I was stuck in this songwriter bag as an image. But basically at heart, I'm a rocker. And I still am. But I was caught up in the singersongwriter bag and I wasn't really enjoying it.