Missing your loved ones is really tough.

Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way.

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.

CharityIn charity lies happiness and bliss, If you haven’t done charity, you may miss, The power to love and share, Charity gives you happiness beyond compare.

Create your own personal brand to stand apart from the crowd. Package your unique talents, style, personality, and products. Show and tell who you are and what you do—to the world.

Julia Roberts taught me how to knit on the set of 'Mona Lisa Smile.'

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.