Quiet IS the new loud.

Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.

Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.

You could be your own spotlight!

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

Learning must be like a house with its door always wide open

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

I build only living stones--men.

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism!

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.