When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you can do is just not say that thing.

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.

There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?

It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.

He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.

I never wanted you to get hurt, but i wanted to take you from him.

I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else - but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.

I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's like on steroids. It's lust with ethics.

sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.

We have reached a place too dark to see, so we shall go together.

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.

Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.

Death is just the moment that your hourglass runs out of sand. That's it. It happens to everyone eventually. All any of us gets to decide is where the sand falls.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.