God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.
I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars.
To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.
Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.
I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.
I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.
What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.
This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears
Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.
I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse.
Don't let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured. College is fun.