It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it.

The thing we look for everywhere is, you know, music that resonates with us. This is what moves me. And hopefully my music will move someone else.

To fully appreciate the music, you have to see the misery.

A few years ago I started an online flirtation with a high school flame, Andy. Things got weird and I called it off and two months later...Versace was dead...dead.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

The products your life must have could be in the form of perfecting your gifts and talents.

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

People love stories. They need stories.

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.

You can never take the violence back.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.