I never had innocence.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

You never really want anything you can easily have.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

My dad was a great dad.

The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.

If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.

The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get crazily confused and thrown off the track.

And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

I disobeyed a basic basketball rule and never boxed out. I figured that if I had the inside position I had enough of an advantage to just go get the ball. And coaches left me alone because I got it.

People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results

We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.