“I believe in the person I want to become.”

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.

Visions of McDonald’s restaurants dotting crossroads all over the country paraded through my brain. I don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven’t seen God. But I think that one’s beliefs are one’s God – and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.

But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

I believe that all roads lead to the same place – and that is wherever all roads lead to.

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.