This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

My shrug was so nonchalant it would make a cat jealous

I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.

85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?

Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.