If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Success come only through high ambition, good guidance, strong will, determining and effort.

Tens of thousands of God’s saints and sufferers through the ages have found their dark nights lightened and tortured souls strengthened because they found help from the Spirit in the Word of God.

When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.

Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.

First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity.