Thinking Quotes

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.

I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, ‘I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.’

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what’s in our hearts.

I was not in the race to become a chief minister. I had never thought about it.

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don’t think I would have been very happy. I’d be in front of the jury singing.

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

I think so many people are reactive… they see things in a short term way they’re right up against it.

Sometimes even in pain we smile to the world until we think we’re dying.

I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.