The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.

Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards.

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in America and never, ever will be!

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.