To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

Don't be afraid to have nothing.

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

Wisdom cannot be bought from the walmart, it can only come from the Holy Spirit of God.

Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning but that does not make you who you are, it is the rest of it- who you choose to be

Speak success into existence.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Next year I want to be better than this season, and the year after that, better than the year before.

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

My fans have written me such kind emails. My management at Daptone helped me heal, too. I'm in a good place.

You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.