3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour

I hope my allergies don't act up

Don't let anyone make you feel like you're not good enough, smart enough or cool enough. Do your own thing.

Start enjoying the things you like about yourself, and if there are things you want to change, either get to work on it or get over it.

We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

There are some people i'd take a bullet for, and some people i'd like to put a bullet in.

Don't worry mom . I am still a virgin.

I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.

I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it.

The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.

Those who are growing great are always asking “why?” If they fail or lose, they ask “why?” If they succeed or win too, they ask “why?

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives.

It's fantastic that Congress has an increasing number of women. Experts call an increasingly female presence in a previously male space 'the Bruce Jenner effect.'

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

A Simple lifestyle of reduced consumption allows more time for interaction with living, dynamic beings, more opportunity for meeting the Other more fully and unencumbered.