I don't know if commerce can every truly be information. I think that's just commerce, that's just selling you something.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.

NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.

Tears are words the heart can't express

Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

We will all be destroyed whether we like it or not. I say let's like it.

The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.