Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.

A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.