I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

Life in the spirit is a saving grace.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.