If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am--I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.

People always clap for the wrong reasons.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.