[Some] songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.

Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.

I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen.

My love for you was bulletproof but you're the one who shot me.

You don't know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night, Scared at the thought of kissing razors

I don't see anything wrong with telling someone that you are selfish with their love and that you can't stand sharing them with anyone else.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

It seems like every time I break up with someone they try to take all my friends. It sucks because your friends are the people you need the most when you are in pain.

I think producers hate me because I will sing something 20, 30 times before I feel it. I always know when I hit it the way I want to, but it's really all in my head and no one else can understand it.

Whatever I did lyrically or vocally, just to try and get better at everything.

Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

All mystics have had psychotic breakdowns, although not all psychotics are mystics.

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

You owe it to yourself to be yourself.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

Actually, who are you not to be?

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.