Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.

Life's too short to stay where we are.

I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage.

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

I guess we're all one phone call from our knees

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

[Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself live, when it refrains from separating its present state from its former state.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.