I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

Every band I've come across has read more than I have.

I don't even call myself a Christian.

The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.

We are the guardians of our beings.

Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity.

As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.