I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

There's no downside to having too much experience.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentional and aligned with your purpose, your values, and your goals.

People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.