I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

Solitude is independence.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

I let the American people down.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

Be not a slave of words.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.