I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.

The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.