I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

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.

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction.

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.

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

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.