“Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?”

My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.

It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.

Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud.

I don’t really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

With some of the bad things that come with love, there’s also a lot of good.

It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

Money is the anthem, of succes, so put on your mascara and your party dress.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

I learned that there’s no reason why people decide they like music when they do.

In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can.

Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It’s like the end of the world.

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men’s hearts and purses.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

Don’t cheapen Jesus’s sacrifice by trying to pay him back