Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

Its always my goal to raise the bar with each record I put out.

It is an interesting thing, love, ” the Princess stated. “It can turn lambs into heroes, and heroes into lambs.

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear... But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

I would send back a statement: ‘None.’

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.