Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're just the audience. You know, people will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. [But] they are really looking for something that's gonna speak to the world that they're living in. That's what people are looking for, but they're not finding it.