I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

To aspire is to go back to the start of the journey when you're one lap away from the finish line, we have to begin with the end in mind and dig for for the opium goals.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

I paint with shapes.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

I just think you people would be happier back in Africa where you came from.

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.

When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.