We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

Look at me, making one of your dreams come true. You and your Norm truck driving around Normville.""You're practically a god.

I treat all women with the utmost respect both professionally and personally and would never do anything to disrespect them.

She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.

Love is the strongest medicine.

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.