We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

It is always, first Self, then everything else.

Don't hate yourselves because you will regret in the future. Your souls may be valuable in society.

Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.

I train for about an hour five days a week and feel I'm in the best shape I've ever been. I can eat what I want and that includes scoffing half a big bar of Cadbury's a day.