I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
The only one that believes in you, is you. Don't lean on how others see you to find belief in yourself.
When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.
When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.
There is no one in the world that can best understand you the way you understand yourself. It only take you to make the best of you.
If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.
Don't let anybody try to change who you are, because at the end of the day, you are the one who must live with yourself.
A best friend isn't someone who's just always there for you.It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself
Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.
I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it.
Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.
And one day they tell you that love doesn't exist between you two. And you start blaming yourself even after knowing that you've been cheated on.
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
You are not an apology, do not treat yourself like one; your lips are perfect for kissing, your hips do not spell 'sorry'.
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get around that is to not allow yourself to deliver it that way.
And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
