Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.
One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.
When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.