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.

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.

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

Boldness comes from curiosity.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.