That's the thing about driving: You're alone but you're everywhere. You're standing still but moving really fast. It's just like perspectives constantly changing.

In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.

Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story.

I'm camera shy. I don't necessarily like being front and center. I'd rather not have my face all up in everything. I'm not trying to be some mysterious producer or anything like that.

To be sorry you hurt me is not enough for me to forgive you.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

It's very different to live with a mask.

The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks lake a lake!

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.

The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.