The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.
I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life andor what I am going through at that specific time.
Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours. "[17
I hate love. Hate being in love. I never want it to happen to me again.
We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.
If you want to wear nude, go with suede or a beautiful leather, please, if I see one more nude patent stiletto on the carpet I feel like I'm going to kill somebody.
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.
Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.
What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.
When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.
There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
It's much less demanding to think about God's will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes.
I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.
When I'm onstage I just want to feel as comfortable as I possibly can.
We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.