All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Hold on. Keep trying. God loves you. Things will improve.

The secret parts of this city never ceased to amaze me.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

A smile can heal a thousand wounds.

I'm not an ungenerous person; I don't resent it. It's just sort of a head-scratcher.

We are making gods out of global celebrities.

I hate interviews - but you have to do them.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic.

For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace