"You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story."

"There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really amazing people who you care a lot about who care a lot about you."

"I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself."

"There aren't always answers for the questions you're looking for, so I have to make peace with that sometimes."

"I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?"

"Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief."

"A resilient spirit knows that the true master is an eternal student."

"It's upsetting to be a man in our society."