Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

eating is the sleeping of being awake.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.