Before I started making music I felt like I couldn't affect anything in the world.

When I make my own music, there is no external producer. I just do everything as quickly as possible. I try not to overthink things.

I think I just liked the idea that I could make something, that I could communicate some sort of idea through music.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Ranger Smiled. 'You want me to be Superman? Spend the night with me.

What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .

Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope

Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.