He was trying to tell me something."Derek snorted. "Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.

This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

I may have one need that you could fulfill if you'd like..." he said.

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

I try to squeeze in a workout whenever I can, even if it's doing squats with my 7-month-old in the kitchen or jumping on the trampoline with my 5-year-old.

He's a sore loser and he lost the fight.

So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.