You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

If mistakes determine our worth, then we're all worthless.Thank God that's not the case.

This is not just "our" world.

I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.

The price of progress is trouble.

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.

I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.

Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.