For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

The skyline is etched in my veins. You can never put that out, no matter how hard it rains.

And know that every struggle in life is there to teach you a lesson It's times like this that make you

Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky I know your fed up but you must try to survive Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup

Don't forget where you come from Don't die holding on to your words Cause you know you got a whole world to change But understand who you got to change first

Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

The moment is now and we cant get it back from the grave.

The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.

North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

You have to know your triggers for stress and then have rituals for combating them.

The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!

Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.