“The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.”

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Friendship? Yes Please.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas time.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

When I was a little kid, I simply loved music and enjoyed expressing myself with my body.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn’t be triggered by a normal voice.

The singing in ‘Dynamite,’ it wasn’t easy because the song is high-pitched.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.

It’s very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I’m like asking for money for a music video for every song – it’s so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want – and I’ve always worked to make it all connect – for all of it to feel cohesive.

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.