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Everyone carries around his own monsters.

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

There’s a pattern when tours start – a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There’s a pattern of going to jail. There’s a pattern of passion for music.

Life is full of struggles.

The smile on my face doesn’t mean my life is perfect.

I like to pretend that I’m okay because I don’t wanna annoy people with my problems.

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer’s life with the writing. I think that’s something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

When you’re in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you’re ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.