Hang in, keep cool, and stay who you are. Things will improve.

Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

Dreams don't always have to exist while the sun's down and your eyes are shut

Therapy is about every kids nightmare when people are telling you that you need to get help but all you really want is a hug.

You are who you are and that's the most beautiful thing in the world.

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

The closest friends you'll have are the ones you'd take a bullet for, but they're the ones you constantly feel you could put a bullet in as well.

Being a fan doesn't mean being there from the start... It means being there till the end.

Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.

God is my shelter.

The best ones, are not the perfect ones.

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

Ive done a lot of albums and I kinda know when Im onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public.

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

Lady, running down to the riptide. Taken away to the dark side.