Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.

The beggarly last doit.