Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.

The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.

Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.

I make you see things that aren't really there and you believe every word

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

red is for fire red is for love too it lies in our hand what we wanna choose...

President Bush is in the hot seat over Iraqi pre-war intelligence. Remember the good ol' days when the only thing the president was trying to cover up was a stain?

I've been playing youth basketball ever since I was in sixth grade; I've been traveling ever since I was in sixth grade, so I'm used to it.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?