In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

We have today and hopefully tomorrow to be the best version of ourselves.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).

Healing is anything that restores your inner sense that all is well, and that returns you to a healthy state of empowerment.

At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.

My days tend to be packed, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I enjoy my work, and it is a privilege to do what I do.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

You can't sit at the table of success for too long or you'll feel bored and dead.

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.