I had trouble getting jeans when I was growing up. I had little skinny legs and this booty that came out of nowhere.

Writing is the best way to get your mind clear. It's also a great way to explain your past or what you hope for the future.

I obviously want a safe world for everybody if we're getting really deep, but my safe and happy place is always going to be music.

I wouldn't say I'm a rebel, but I do like pushing the limits sometimes.

Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.