I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

There's a million new people in the studio every day creating new stuff so I really had to be on my toes with this one so I could get it out before somebody else could.

I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.

I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

I wanted to enjoy the process. I wanted to enjoy just being on stage and giving back and the feedback.

Some books are lies frae end to end.

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.