I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday tomorrow, go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!

God is in control and knowing that at the end of the day what happens - whether I'm comfortable with it or not or afraid of it or not - that God is in control.

I used to be so afraid to say what I really think.

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.

Through their teachings they dignify even the most mundane professions. According to them any profession or work that adds to the common good of man must be respected and it is dignified

Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you

Symptoms then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs.

But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.

The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.

Never take your eyes off the ball - even when it's in the referee's pocket.

Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.

Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.