I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

I never got the idea of a punishing God, just a really boring one. To see people growing up in the Carolinas who were Baptist, I knew there were others who felt God was going to send them to hell for any little thing, but not me.

Now, I like a church service, but this was one of those write-your-own-vows sorts of things. Neither of them had ever picked up a pen in their life, but all of a sudden they’re poets, right, like that’s all it takes — being in love.

Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

I spend so much time like living in the past or the future. I mean, I think most people do, really. And the moments when you're really present in your life can be pretty rare, really.