I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to stay positive, but the ability to be positive, happy, and even, at times, appreciative around 'negative people' is the mark of real positivity.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.