Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.
A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave. '
I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.
Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.
The only thing to fear is fearlessness.
Life is a winking light in the darkness.
As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.
There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.