You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

When I became conscious of being a person, when I was very small, I knew that I was from Indiana, but I had never seen Indiana. I was born there, but we moved when I was, like, a year old. I always had a sense of a place that was far away from where I was. I would research it and find out about it and I remember on Christmas morning I used to always call Indiana to find out what the weather was like; to see if it was snowing or not.

You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.

Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar.

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.