When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.

I didn't become successful until I became myself

Love as hard as you can, at all times

No offense to people who go on Tinder but I just feel like it's ruining romance, I really do.

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you guys...

Guess it's true I'm not good at a one night stand , but I still need love cause I'm just a man

I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

I want to be rich in all the foods I’ve tasted and all the places I’ve been and all the people I’ve kissed.

No, I am not afraid; the Lord said he would protect me, and I have full confidence in His word.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

One hundred percent, I mean, many of the Sergio Leone movies were with Clint Eastwood, and that's what it is.

To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be.

What's dead may never die.

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

U.S. Constitution is under attack from Fundamentalist Islam and shari'a.

I'm glad you're better," he said. His mouth sounded like it was almost in my hair, just above my my ear. "When I saw you fall..." "You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.