Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

Surround yourself with friends who only call you a superstar

Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you.

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

I saw an injured black cat. God knows, who has crossed her path.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

You're intoxicated by my very presence.

I'm not saying girls are perfect, because we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you.

I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.