Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life.

One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

Never take a person away from the music they love.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

Daemons had minds of their own, which could never be harnessed, even by those who sheltered them.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

Humans will always endure suffering - even accepting the fact that we're going to die will cause us suffering, and from that stems a little pessimism and negativity that all of us are susceptible to.

India is developing because of 125 crore strong Team India. We have to end the curse of casteism, communalism with the sweetness of development.

The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript.

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression .