I think you're conditioned, especially in America, that there is this line you have to walk down. Anybody who wants to move off that path at any point in their life is my hero. Anybody who goes off that path has to wrestle with that.

Boldness comes from curiosity.

If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.