I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way.

Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.

Missing your loved ones is really tough.

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria.

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.

I'm not trying to fall in love on the Jersey Shore. I'm just trying to hook up.

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

The one who sings, prays twice.