We are ugly but we have the music.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

My eyes meet his and I understand exactly what he's saying. He's my person. He's my home.

When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.

You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood.

I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.

Paco Fuentes, " Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat.

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.