The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.

so i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while.

I think there's something so attractive about mystery.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Money can't buy you back the love that you had then