All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Even if the circumstances around you are like darkness, believe that God will give you light

Style never speaks, but somehow is always saying something.

Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act.

Find what it is you love to do and do it well. Make the world a better place.

Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.