A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly equally balanced, you call the dream a nightmare.
"I want my music to make people feel something."
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've lost focus.
Insofar as a thing is in harmony with our nature, it is necessarily good.
Opportunities don’t happen; you create them.
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.