I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.

She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

Love is to be cherished because you're lucky to feel it even once in your life.

Who you're becoming is far more important than what you're doing, and yet, it is what you're doing that is determining who you're becoming.

Your best as an artist is to create something that resonates for you.

Do you even recognize your own consciousness?

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

When you watch these reality shows, the person that is hated on the most is usually the one that gets the most shine.

The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is fitting.