I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

Expectations are an evil thing.

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.

I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.

One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.

she would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

At this and every season, our Savior invites us to join with HIM and others to offer the priceless gift of JOY.

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?

I love clothes, but I don't know what to put on myself, let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed.

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend. [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.