There is always a harmonious solution... If you stand back and give yourself time to find it.

The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.

There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight indication of each day toward success or failure. But no curses.

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.

Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.