You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

Different cultures have different audiences.