The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.

I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

Every day is the start of something beautiful.

It's amazing, the look in your eyes, like you could save me, but you won't even try

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

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A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.