People take one another for granted

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.

dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.

I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.

You're never going to be ready"..."Don't you see that? You have to forget about ready. If you don't, you're always going to run away

Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.

When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models as "black girls." I thought, "They never say 'white girls.'

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

You can't play forever.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

Every kid's dream is to be a great actor.

Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.