Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies.

It matters not what my brain knows, but what my heart feels.

I believe i am hard as a stone, but even a stone breaks if you smash it real hard.....

The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.

Because of the brevity of life, the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.

Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow for the back of my head, and I need another pillow just in case.

I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.

If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.