"A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out."

"I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny."

"I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about."

"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."

"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."

"But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure."

"It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife."

"After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime."