If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

Life's too short to stay where we are.

I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage.

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

I guess we're all one phone call from our knees

Not that easy to have tears in your heart but a smile on your lips.

I had Japanese once. A business man I had run into in New York ... but that's not what he meant.

When the president went around the table to the country's national security leadership, Hillary was clear: We have to go get bin Laden. And our Special Operations Forces did just that.

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

It was only his fifth offense, and this time he's killed someone.

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.

I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls.

You might be an interested guy, an interested reported then I get to know you and then I know you're this also and you're this also and you may hide it in a certain way. That's what I love.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.