Don’t wait up for me tonight, for the night will be black and white.

I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image as fleeting as a dream: whatever beauties I discovered, I already knew by heart.

Childhood memories surge back more vividly midway through life – like some palimpsest whose original text suddenly reappears after the manuscript has been chemically treated.

I am the other.

The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me.

Christ Jesus is the power of God.

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college.

I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

I really need a gin and tonic.

Everything is something, but something is nothing.

Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.

In itself, I spent a year writing, you know all these different songs and when it came to recording the record, I just pulled out all the tracks I liked the most.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.