What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

Don't say, "the sky is my limit", say, "I progress ad infinitum.

Nothing tortures your enemies more than seeing you walk with a smile of confidence on your face.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day, ' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.

Each fragrance bottle and name captured a moment in time perfectly.

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.