I’d promised myself that I’d really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well things could work out if you did.

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.

She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.

And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.

Oh. Listen, this is really hard for me . . . " "What is?" "You know. Being liked." I started to cry. I couldn't help it.

It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.

I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.

The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.

But in the end, black can never be white, one plus one must always equal two, and Mara Lynn was a normal little girl.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.

[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.

For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.

Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.

The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.

Everytime you put an album out with any producer you do the same thing.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.