Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you.

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

Surround yourself with friends who only call you a superstar

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin.

I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow.

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!