Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.

Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.

Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.

Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.

While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

I consider myself a bassist first.

I am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It's part of who you are and you shouldn't feel ashamed of what you believe in.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

Big results require big ambitions.

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

[Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

I am very confident that the Spirit is with us.