“There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.”

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.

I’m not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That’s what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I’ve been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.

The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren’t better. I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times.

We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.

If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

If you have political convictions. Keep ’em to yourself

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

Life is – the way God has given it to me was just a platter – a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It’s been beautiful.

There is no shame in wanting to heal. It is a chance to rebuild yourself, bigger and better than before.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don’t know what art is.

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

Make your life about something bigger than your life.

But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.

Wasn’t that a wonderful thing that I had a chance to work with more great actors, big stars, than just about anyone in the history of Hollywood?

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

It’s been exhausting. It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever done because it’s just so big, and I haven’t had a lot of time.