I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.

The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe.

I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.

Young people feel things so deeply, don't they?' she said quietly, almost to herself. 'Everything's happening for the first time.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

I'm an emotional player ... I like to leave it out there.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.

The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.