My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

It feels nice to emerge from the lies.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect, they will be happy to open up their wallets and pay you.

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.

I've certainly said I don't want to do any more bad guys, then I sit and don't do anything for a while and then think, "Okay, one more."

Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs

People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. —Elana

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.