If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

Your uniqueness is your strength. Remember that. Don't mold yourself to others or to what others think. You're an individual. You're special.

You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.

Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.

Be your own person because no one can take that away from you.

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Happiness isn't a destination; its a journey.

People can say what they want but it doesn't stop me from doing what I'm crazy about doing.

LOVE WHAT YOU DO! Whatever that is, put your entire heart & soul into it, or don't do it at all.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest—the inner game runs the outer game.

Big food companies flatter us by telling us how busy we are and they simultaneously convince us that we are helpless. I am moderately busy, but not all that helpless. Neither are you.

I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.

There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.