It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

There are 2 types of artist:those who create for others in mindthose who create for themselveseither way, none are truly independent.

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

I never think of myself as different from anyone else.

I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.

Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

I just try to show everything I represent and I represent God so I want to put that in my music.