When I hear about something that's hot, I back away from it. So I go and discover the stuff I wasn't paying attention to five years ago.

I'm identifying with the underdog. And it makes totally sense to me.

I have to do what I'm supposed to do with my life. Don't think less of me.

I love adventures so to me, the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.

It's funny because I consider myself a musical scavenger. What that means to me is that I usually avoid feeding on the fresh meat. I kinda go for the meat that's kinda been forgot for a while.

Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.

There's a big difference between guiding and controlling.

I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take piano lessons. That's the way you really need to learn to play the piano."

There is something nice about a library, isn't there?" Mr. Curtis said. He nodded and took in the familiar scenery. "The scent of ink and worn, dusty pages.

Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease.

I saw the Eagle Tree for the first time on the third Monday of the month of March, which I guess could be considered auspicious if I believed in magic or superstition or religion...

If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert.