I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

Expectations are an evil thing.

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.

I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.

One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.

Since I started making music, it had always been for myself.

God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'My plan was indeed to stay there forever.

Sometimes, one needs another pair of eyes to see things clearly.

One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.

I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.

It's an awesome feeling being a father, because you never think you can fall in love with something so quickly. It was almost immediate.

Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

If I like you, I'm going to tell you. I'm a hugger, even with men: I'm just very deep.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.