I don't think about, "How does this song that has more of an electronic mix prefix to a song that has a full orchestra next to a song that has other things?" I just work on it as-needed.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

Did you ever have one of those nights when you didn't want to go out but your hair looked too good to stay home?

The stairway is not a thing of gleaming strands a radiant evanescence for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not touch the stone.

I made a mistake. I should've had two accounts, one for personal and one for office. And I didn't, and I take responsibility for that.

Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through.