I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.

I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

Beware of those who speak negatively about everything and everybody. A negative person will never say a positive thing about you.

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

It’s hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

For me, one of the biggest thrills is going to a theater and going, "Oh, I got a laugh!" Because you never quite get to hear it [otherwise].

There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.