I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.

My heart's been broken in a thousand pieces I've lived and died a thousand times And in each of those lifetimes With all of those pieces I chose you…A million times.

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another.

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.

I didn't want to sing. I wanted to be music.

I didn't want to sing.I wanted to be music.

The most beautiful things often stand alone.

I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.

We write to go on living, after we have died.

If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you".

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.

If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.

One good friend is better than a thousand acquaintances.

Why should you live in the past when the present already has everything that you need to start a new beginning?

When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.

Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.