Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.
For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.
Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.
My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.
I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear out of nowhere, like out of a dream or an image that I've seen in a book, or even the title of a book that I'm staring at on a shelf. It's a good way to write songs, just stare at a bookshelf!