Love with pride is like chasing the pavement. There'll be a long chasing until it ends.

My religion is no way of knowing me.

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.

For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away.

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.