What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.

Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato

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

I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.