This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

Patience is part of true Christlikeness, something we so often admire in others without demanding it of ourselves.

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.

WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.

The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.

Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.

All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?