I'm not an Internet artist, I didn't get discovered on the Internet - I got discovered pushing my mix tapes on the street, walking on foot, going to parties, passing them out.

Wake up everyday stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears.

You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten.

We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.

The more real you get, the more unreal things get.

I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.

We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information.

Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point.

Every girl deserves to be treated like a princess.

Close your eyes, they'll never see your vision

Hate comes from Intimidation. Love comes from Appreciation.

Work out the details in achieving your dreams

Hope is like a beautiful flower. If we take great care of our hope, life could be a beautiful garden.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

I've always been compared to people. It's a revolving cast that comes and goes - obviously, sometimes people stay.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

In heaven I'll be shocked by those who aren't there, those I didn't think would be there but are. And the fact I'm there at all.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.