I don't exist without writing.

I love being in a band.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.

I'm not a wild and crazy person.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I don't exist without writing.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

I'm not a partygoer.

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

I'm fairly specific about what I like to wear and looks are important to me, just like they are to everybody.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

The things you fear are undefeatable not by their nature but by your approach.

Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.

What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

Writing novels is the most exciting.

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.