Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

Beloved, it's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.

No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell.

Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded.

Real religion begins where the tiny cocoons of belief systems end.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

The car industry has invested a lot in hybrid, but my opinion is electric cars will take over a lot of hybrids quicker than people think now.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.

The last thing I would want for my future daughter would be to starve herself because she thought a thigh gap was necessary to be deemed attractive.

I feel like when I fight it's an art, and Art isn't supposed to be 'nice', it isn't supposed to be liked. It's supposed to make you feel something.