I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

Here in Beacon, I feel like this was the worst year yet. The entire town, like a lot of winter towns, just kind of holed up in the winter.

One could draw up all different kinds of adversity depending on what your weakness is.

Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.

People go into things for the wrong reasons.

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.