If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was going on.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

It's the timing. I don't have to do it [drugs] all the time.

Everybody just needs a second chance.

I don't write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records. So, I'm going to start opening up and letting you know my struggles.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

My die-hard fans who came out - I call them my die-hard fans because any time a fan pays to see you, they have to love what you're doing, respect the craft.

Grace is released more abundantly as you work.

Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

I have a deep respect for musicians, and I feel like I would want to be so prepared and so well-educated and deep in the process before I ever release anything.

Race is a very sensitive subject.

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.