Let's test the waters... Love makes a splash, and you too thick to skinny-dip.

Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel. Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus. It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas.

Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise.

In God we trust, the game is all us. Til the sky calls or its flames on us.

Sitting with the woman of your dreams and forgetting what her name is.

This is my time, this is my hour, This is my pain, this is my name, this is my power. If it's my reign, then it's my shower, This pole position...I made a lane 'cause they blocked ours.

I believe there's a god above me, I'm just the god of everything else!

We shoppers, you bloggers. If money talks, you mumblers. You try it on, then take it off, Then post a pic on your tumblrs.

I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.

I find myself trying to explain more, and explain the perspective of my mentality, or the mentality I'm trying to convey.

I feel like people can feel when something is natural. I think they can tell.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

You can't escape the puking sphinx.

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.

Motherhood has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has taught me a lot about myself, about the things I'm great at, and the things I need to work on.