I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.

...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is feeling insecure.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.