As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.

We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes.

Don't stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die.

The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

I don't consider myself a religious person, but I consider myself a very spiritual person. I would say I have a relationship with God, I believe in God, I do.

My brain can think faster than I can, Im not fast enough. Who is there to talk to that wont lock me up?

It is OK if you don't fit in, history only remembers the exceptional.

The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.

I am catastrophically in love with you.

I wish I was your favorite girl, I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world, I wish I was your favorite smile, I wish the way I dressed was your favorite kind of style

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

Nobody can say that I’m lazy in training.

God's place is the world but the world is not God's place.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.