We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes.

Don't stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die.

The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

I don't consider myself a religious person, but I consider myself a very spiritual person. I would say I have a relationship with God, I believe in God, I do.

As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.

My brain can think faster than I can, Im not fast enough. Who is there to talk to that wont lock me up?

Sadness, forever unacknowledged, eventually becomes resentment.

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.

Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.

Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra.

Is it not meningitis?

People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'

The truth is, I don't really have a type of girl.

Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.