I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.

I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking for a home at the same time.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.