I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him
If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
Hate is a lack of imagination.
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.
When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
That's why Serena Williams is such a hero for me, because she's got such incredible swagger, and it's earned, and she can teach us that it is a good thing. The fact that she has been denigrated and called cocky - I mean, she's the best in the world! I hope my work can inspire other women to have that swagger and believe that they can have it all.