I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

You cannot define success and do that exceptionally well without a mention of "gratitude".

Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.