All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.

NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.

Tears are words the heart can't express

Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

If you're unloved then find out and destroy all the barriers that you have created against love.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness.

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience.

The Bible isn't meant to just inform us, it is meant to transform us. 40 Days in the Word will teach you how to be not just a hearer of the Word, but a doer of the Word!

What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.

I still visit my village quite often, as my parents and one of my sisters live there, but also I feel the village is more of an isolated, unreal part of me.

If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.