I think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.

Not everything in the world is easy or powerful.

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.