If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

Love is a state of being.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

In every parting there is an image of death.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.