The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Leaders are not born, but made as a result of hard work

Simply sailing in a new direction you could enlarge the world

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

Just know what you're talking about and if you don't, look it up. Education.

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.

I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em