“The funny thing is, the more you know, the more passionate you feel about life, and the more joy you feel, and the more inspired you feel, but then also the more disgusted you are with humanity […] [this is] the paradox of life.”

If I have learned one thing in my life, it is this — just go with it. If you relax, it doesn’t hurt as much.

i won’t be happy until i’m famous like God

I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process, I forgot that I was special too.

I wouldn’t have turned out the way I was if I didn’t have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

Papa Don’t Preach

Power without guilt, love without doubt.

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

I’m anal-retentive. I’m a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I’m a control freak. That’s why I’m not married. Who could stand me?

Confidence is everything.

Sick and perverted always appeals to me.

We all fall to the floor at some point. It’s how you pick yourself up that’s the real challenge. Isn’t it?

When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

Who dares, wins.

I don’t take myself completely seriously. I think that’s another quality that people have to hold on to, you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

If it’s bitter at the start, then it’s sweeter in the end.

Only when I’m dancing can I feel this free.

I’m become so numb, I can’t feel you there. I’ve become so tired, so much more aware. I’m becoming this, all I want to do, is be more like me, and be less like you.

Sometimes I make songs about girls, and I say ‘he,’ or I’ll make songs about guys, and I say ‘she,’ or sometimes they’re exactly what they’re about. I feel like it just allows me to get a lot more perspective.

I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I’m saying? Like, c’mon.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

I feel like I don’t really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.

Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.

Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.