I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?

I went to Alabama, so I'm still very devoted to Alabama football and the SEC.

I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.

I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.