Start enjoying the things you like about yourself, and if there are things you want to change, either get to work on it or get over it.

3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour

I hope my allergies don't act up

Don't let anyone make you feel like you're not good enough, smart enough or cool enough. Do your own thing.

We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

There are some people i'd take a bullet for, and some people i'd like to put a bullet in.

Don't worry mom . I am still a virgin.

I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.

I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it.

The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

All those big words produce disgust today.

Love every version of yourself, they help create your own unique version of extraordinary.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?

Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical soul.

In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.

Wherever you turn you cannot live without internet, phones .. So I think the film industry will change, but I still believe that the TV will survive in the same way the cinema survives.