Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

Dark clouds not only bring thunderstorm, They also bring rain.

When we are in the dark, true friends are like a ray of light from heaven, it is for us to follow it or not.

...was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

There is no bad weather, just soft runners.

I lost a button hole.

There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.