I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.