The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.

NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.

Tears are words the heart can't express

Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.

We all have that divine moment, when our lives are transformed by the knowledge of the truth.

Fear is always death. Faith is life. Have faith and your victory is assured.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.

I try to exercise as much as possible and eat healthy. But most importantly, I try to make sure that I'm near people who inspire me to be a better person.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

No one really understands quantum mechanics.

I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person.