Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest.

I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone.

I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.

Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster.

I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.

I live my life in a way that I feel completely comfortable with. I don't struggle with who I am, who I date, who I love, what I say or what I stand for, not just sexuality but everything.

Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.

There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.

I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't.

Although we are Canadian, we have both vowed to remain unmarriad in solidarity with the millions who don't have the same rights as us around the world.

The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate.

If there is a construction or a pathway in the spirit to be made, it is the way of godliness.

Sometimes it's not just your favorite song. It's your untold story.

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.