In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

You never really want anything you can easily have.

I never had innocence.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

My dad was a great dad.

The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.

Do not try to be the best, but never forget to try your best.

Close your eyes. Now see the world with your mind, and feel the joy of your magnificent life.

We believe that Jesus has made His home in our hearts, and as long as we carry Him there, God's love will keep our love strong no matter where we are.

... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead...

For the first time I realized I could be more than a crawling little pile of bones and flesh in a onesie.

Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

Always consider giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game... And if it's a game, then you need to win.