I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, "Ah, you know, it's Wednesday." But I'm blessed. I love my work.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.

A novel is a performance you have to plan.

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.