There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being champions too much.

The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.

I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

If I could put one word on my journey over the last couple of years it would definitely be ‘turbulent’.

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.