I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.

I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

At least it would have been perfect, if it wasn't for my mother.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

Man the life of a workaholic... You either on ya work or just workin on it.

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

It's pronounced 'Romaine,' like the lettuce.

To be political actually means to care about your community.