If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.

We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.

Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world.

Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes.

We are all going through some sort of struggle, so I try to keep that in mind when someone makes me angry. I also know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world. When I'm not in love with someone, I feel empty and I can't think about anything but trying to find that someone.

I know that positive energy begets positive energy. I know that when I decide to see the good in something or someone, it's returned to me tenfold.

If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.

I know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone.

I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.

Night's black Mantle covers all alike.

Leadership is influence.

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.

I said I wouldn't leave her.

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.

The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.

Carlito likes to swap spit with men who don't want to be cool.

The resources of this earth are inexhaustible, because God made man's mind inexhaustible.