Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Forget the past.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

You either make dust or eat dust.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.