I think that live music is something that the Internet can never kill.

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?

Don't let your silly dreams fall in between the crack of the bed and the wall.

Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

I am very blessed to have a great group of long-term friends and a huge family that has been very loving and supportive. I try to stay connected to that and contribute as much as I can.

I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.

I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.

News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

You don't cry when someone pushes you down. You get up. You get up and you fight back. And pretty soon nobody's going to shove you anymore because they'll see it's not worth it.

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them.

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.

My intentions create my reality.