No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

The star-crossed lovers

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

He had to get out, get some space between him and the world, just to breathe.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.

Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow / No tomorrow, no tomorrow.

If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm at a point in my career that if I want to take a little bit of a left turn and make an album that is more hushed, more acoustic and more personal, that I can do it.

We're news junkies in my house.