You don't know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night, Scared at the thought of kissing razors

Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.

I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen.

My love for you was bulletproof but you're the one who shot me.

I don't see anything wrong with telling someone that you are selfish with their love and that you can't stand sharing them with anyone else.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

It seems like every time I break up with someone they try to take all my friends. It sucks because your friends are the people you need the most when you are in pain.

I think producers hate me because I will sing something 20, 30 times before I feel it. I always know when I hit it the way I want to, but it's really all in my head and no one else can understand it.

[Some] songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.

Whatever I did lyrically or vocally, just to try and get better at everything.

Many people don't know they have stopped believing in god. Their neighbors do

His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.