Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

I can't stress enough how important it is to write bad songs. There's a lot of people who don't want to finish songs because they don't think they're any good. Well they're not good enough. Write it! I want you to write me the worst songs you could possible write me because you won't write bad songs. You're thinking they're bad so you don't have to finish it. That's what I really think it is. Well it's all right. Well, how do you know? It's not done!

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.