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When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always--I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me--is that the form leads you to what you want to say.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.

Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly.

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many free services available.

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.

I put more pressure on myself to do well. I know how good I can be and I don't want to fall short of that.

I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

I wanted to be in my daughter's life, and I decided I didn't want to do music anymore because I was compromising myself too much and I wasn't loving what I was doing.

At some points I wanted to give up on music still, because the business is just as bad as it was when I left in 2005. But I'm learning that I have purpose to be here.

I don't want to try to do music or satisfy anyone else's ears; it has to come from here first and what I love.

I wanna piss on his head, I want his family dead.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

9:00: I don't know what I want. I just point at the Dollar Menu and say, 'Give me all of that.

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.

I definitely don't want to make Nicholas Kristof defend your employer, no one should have to do that but a sincere question.

All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.