Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.

Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?

I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don’t care how condescending that sounds, it’s true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always.

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.

We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds

Did you really want to die?""No one commits suicide because they want to die.""Then why do they do it?""Because they want to stop the pain.

Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.

People who know God truly change the life of their nation, and not the government

Beauty will save the world.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.

If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.