Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday tomorrow, go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!

God is in control and knowing that at the end of the day what happens - whether I'm comfortable with it or not or afraid of it or not - that God is in control.

I used to be so afraid to say what I really think.

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don't carry myself as a boy.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

[While writing], I'll go anywhere I find that is quiet, has no internet. I have a big internet problem.

If you go 72-11 and don't win (the championship), it doesn't mean anything. Actually it does. It means you've cheated and played an extra regular-season game.

I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, This is going to be green? I want that to be my job.