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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
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"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

"As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody."

"I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful."

"What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer."

"I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes."

"I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is."
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