Nothing exists without its opposite.
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.
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.
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.
You must write every single day of your life. . . You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. . . may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone.
I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.
In pubs across the land, the customers speak of little else but lunar nutation, especially since the moon is nutating at this very moment.