Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?

I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.