Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you’re always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

Rather be dead than cool.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

A true man hates no one.

I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

Success is the child of audacity.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

Young people can create beautiful things.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

God helps those who help themselves.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

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.