I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

The world is a drought when out of love.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

Honour, cherish and nourish yourself.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

If there is a will, there is always a way my friend