Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.