Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.

When you're sick, you can never get your mind straight. But if you're passionate and sick, you'll find a way to write down something.

Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.

I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

I don't rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots.

You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

Laughter is the language of the soul.

To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.