Christmas music is usually more concentrated pop music in a way. It's meant to make us feel good, and it's meant to make us like we belong somewhere.

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.

I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

Any time gone by was better.

There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.