Quote

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.