“The pain grows within you only to end within you”

You are allowed to glow, you are allowed to let the toxicity go.

Why wait for tomorrow? When you can bloom today.

Do all the flying, keep rising.

You are doing it right if you are doing the things you like.

No matter how dark it gets, never let the light within you dim.

When you are the Sun itself, you have to rise and set daily.

Your potential is powerful, recognise it.

Love is not always about being there but always about remembering in prayers.

What grows inside you, grows around you.

And if it takes darkness to see the stars, may I never come out of it.

All it takes is a single moment of happiness to blemish even the deepest of scars.

I run away from myself, only to find myself in others.

This brain of mine tends to complicate the simplest of things.

Holding a rope full of thorns, dreaming of a rope full of flowers.

I am not going to apologise for the things I didn’t do and neither should you.

We ain’t flawless and yet we are precious.

It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.

When you go out with your crew of friends and you get into trouble, at the end of the night when you come home, you’re still the same crew of friends. It’s just the story that you have to tell.

So much pain. So many lives. Their darkness must end.

Start with the end in mind. If you want to be a millionaire, talk like one, act like one, work like one.

Thinking that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end.

You gotta fight. You gotta get out the negative energy. Don’t let it build up. You end up screaming at each other over something totally stupid, like, ‘Well, why’d you put this spoon in this drawer then?’ ‘

You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought you’d like to know.

I always work on the songs all together up until the very end. I never mix a song and think, “Okay, now that one’s done.”