I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

There is a deeper satisfaction if you earn from your own work than relying on corruptible ways of amassing riches.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.

Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Change the conversation of the world by dwelling on what's gone right.

There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.