I've always loved Halloween: the one day of the year when you can blatantly dress as your number-one obsession and people will smile instead of snicker.

Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.

I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.

Music is always the first thing I notice when I go someplace new.

Writing catchy pop songs is a super-minor superpower, but it's mine.

Sad songs are not my strong suit. All the songs that have saved my life make you feel like driving with the top down or dancing in your room with your best friend.

Passion is never pathetic.

The threat of failure shouldn't kill the fun of dreaming.

The way she says kiss, it sounds different. Like she invented the word specifically for the song.

Electricity crackles from her lips to mine and I'm stunned it's not visible.

They are kissing—finally, extravagantly, like it's the first thirty seconds of a kissing competition and they can't imagine they'll ever get tired.

The person who have a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image.

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky

All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.

No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment.

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.