I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.

I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself

Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.

Let's make something happen to this world.

We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

I plan on having parties when I’m 30. I plan on having fun when I’m old. Any notion of THE BEST years comes from clichéd ‘should haves ‘if I’d’ ‘wish I’d’

I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized.

Jesus said, "My Father is the gardener...He trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit".

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.