I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

I really hope that when someone puts my record on that they hear me.

Don't ever feel inhibited. It's harder to censor yourself than to just be yourself.

Life is too short to surround yourself with people who aren't looking out for you.

I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.

Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that.

I'm excited to go study and read and immerse myself in something.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money.

Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.

Integrity, wisdom, skill, intelligence – such things are forged in adversity.

Knowledge is not necessary for obedience, nor doth information replace faith. El hast commanded. We shall obey

Vengeance is sweet.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.

Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.