If you've got a talent, protect it.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

It's always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it's certainly not for the fame - because it's a pain in the ass. But it's really the person in the theater seat you think about when you sit in a room and write.

I think there are beautiful moments. These days everybody expects that fairy tale , that you're going to be together forever with somebody and I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love that to happen if that happened, but 10 years is enough. 10 years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It's a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in 10 years.

I just wanna hang out. No big deal!

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.