There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

It's not my fault that people are perverts.

Strive to discover why you exist and then begin to invest your time into your purpose and calling.

I can see how you could get dragged into the bad stuff, but I've got good friends around me, good family. I think I've got my head screwed on.

You're nothing to me until you're everything.

If love is a drug, then it's the kind that should be prescribed.

Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

Any employer is going to look at your social media before they hire you. Why aren't we doing that when we screen people coming into the United States?

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.