I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.

There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

I find everything a struggle.

October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!

I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.

So I did something I've never done, and put your live above my own, because no matter how hard I try to convey it, I'm not heartless. I have a heart and... and it beats for you.

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

The life of a Repo Man is always intense.

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

While I read almost all my newspapers online, I'm not a big fan of e-books because I like to see what I've read and remember it. Books are a way of making memory physical.

When I met with Deepak Chopra, instead of asking him for something, I offered something. You can always think of things that are not really any costs to you that still have a huge benefit.