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The truth often lies, unclaimed, in the middle.
We love broken, beautiful people.
Love and pride don’t mix.
“I Got My Shades on Cuz My Future’s So Bright,”
You don’t have to have a great voice to be a singer if your songs are good enough.
You have to learn how to reconcile those two things. Having it and not deserving it. Or, you do what I did, and refuse to think about it.
I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it’s not faith, right?
if you redeem yourself, then believe in your own redemption.
People say that life keeps moving, but they don’t mention that it does stop sometimes, just for you. Just for you and your girl.
Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself.
it scared me that the only thing between this moment of calm and the biggest tragedy of my life was me choosing not to do it.
When you find that rare person who really knows who you are and they still don’t love you… I was burning.
Self-expression is about what it feels to live, not whether you had the right to claim any emotion at any time.
But music is never about music. If it was, we’d be writing songs about guitars. But we don’t. We write songs about women.
I fell in love with the wrong guy who was exactly the right guy.
I think the people whom we idolize within a culture tell us a lot about our culture. It reveals both our strengths and our weaknesses.
