It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

It's all about letting the story take over.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.

It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

I've always had problems with my brain, so a lot of the songs are about issues I have with paranoia or freak-outs. 'When My Head Explodes' is about being on stage, having people look at you and expecting you to perform, then literally your head explodes.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.

Rumors are like wildfire; you are burned up before you know it.

A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

If you're scared to lose rather than excited to win, then that's the wrong way to approach a race.

Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious buildings were erected in an era of constricted horizons, both in time and in space.

Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.

Team playing, that's what I see when I'm out there watching the WNBA games. All the girls play as a team, and they have each other's backs, and that's great.

You have to stay true to yourself and where you're coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It's such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It's bliss, love and fulfillment of another level.

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

I'm fairly adventurous with my eating. I've tried kangaroo, and Moreton Bay bugs, which are a kind of lobster, are so good.

There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.