There are ultimate truths you cannot hide from no matter how high you climb or how long you sit alone. Everything is on its way somewhere, even if that place feels like nowhere.

No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.

Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.

Adaptation is the key to survival.

But he’s an untouchable, Shirin.’ ‘He’s my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I feel a lot more at peace with it.

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.