I don't write songs, songs write me.
The more and more that you dance, the easier it gets, and the more you can push yourself and do more rehearsals.
Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.
I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.
I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.
Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.
Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, 'If you don't like me, screw you. ' If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.
Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.
In my opinion, there's this new phenomenon where guys used to talk about cars a lot in the past. But, more and more it's becoming them talking about recording studios.
It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way - just sign the contract and do the book because, provided the topic has some meaning for me, I know I can do it. But a novel is different. A novel is more like falling in love. You don't say, 'I'm going to fall in love next Tuesday, I'm going to begin my novel. ' The novel has to come to you. It has to feel just like love.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.