Don't ever feel inhibited. It's harder to censor yourself than to just be yourself.

I really hope that when someone puts my record on that they hear me.

Life is too short to surround yourself with people who aren't looking out for you.

I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.

Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that.

I'm excited to go study and read and immerse myself in something.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

Im trying to learn how to cook.

He thoroughly intended to do some major grovelling. Olympic-style begging, if necessary.

In a totally dysfunctional society, the profession of a writer would not exist.

Good governance is about nothing more or less than creating happiness. It really is that simple.

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Are you willing to increase the amount of time every day that you feel good inside?

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.

As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?