"To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now."

"There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that."

"Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love."

"The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock."

"I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff."

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."

"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."