I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.
“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.”
“It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.”