When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.
I hate my voice. I've never been comfortable singing.
I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.
I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.
Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.
I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.