I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.
Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.
I started writing everything down. I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please find me.
Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.
When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you. Converse with Him confidently and frankly; for God is not wont to speak to a soul that does not speak to Him.
If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.