Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

The anger of lovers renews their love.

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do

Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.

Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.

It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.