"I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is a bit self-obsessed. I don't know if I really have a persona, in that respect. I want to just make the music and hide away."

“There are no rules when it comes to love.”

“Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.”

“The hardest work in the world is being out of work.”

“... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”

Source : Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

“I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.”

“I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.”

“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.”