One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.

Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards.

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

There is no success where there are no secrets.

Lying Ted, right? You know, lying Ted comes in with a bible held high. You know that, right? It's held high. He puts the bible down and then he starts lying all day long.

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

Most women at retirement have significantly less money than men, and they still get paid less than men. I'm sure that in my reptile brain I'm quite conscious of this.

I'm old enough, I remember when Richard Nixon had the election stolen in 1960. And no serious historian doubts that Illinois and Texas were stolen.

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

I believe people are inherently magical and good.

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.