We mistake our mistakes as being damaged.
Life makes love look hard.
She lost him, but she found herself, and somehow, that was everything.
With you I’d dance in the rain in my best dress, fearless.
As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons. And sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn’t be full and the mantle would be a little more empty.
Band-aids don’t fix bullet holes.
The rest of the world was black and white, But we were in screaming color.
When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now.
You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn’t date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.
Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.
I think for me, beauty is sincerity. I think that there are so many different ways that someone can be beautiful. You know, someone so funny that it makes them beautiful no matter how they look, because they’re sincere in it. Or somebody who’s really emotional, and moody and thoughtful and stoic, but that makes them beautiful because that’s sincerely who they are.
Books train your mind to imagine, to think big.
Don’t you worry your pretty little mind, people throw rocks at things that shine.
So we’ve been out-numbered, raided and out-cornered. It’s hard to fight when the fight ain’t fair. We’re getting stronger now, found things they’ve never found. They might be bigger, but we’re faster and never scared. You can walk away and say we don’t need this. But there’s something in your eyes says we can beat this.
It’s not our job to make people like us if they don’t want to. It’s not our job to change people. That’s beyond our control. But what you CAN control is how you respond to it.
Time won’t fly it’s like I’m paralysed by it, I’d like to be my old self again, I’m still trying to find it.
This is life before you know who you are going to be.
As an artist you have to be really self-aware. As a songwriter, especially. You need to be aware enough to catch yourself creating similar things to what you have created before and steer away from that. You have to grow, otherwise you will lose people’s attention and you will get bored with yourself.
You’ll have new Septembers.
Maybe I got mine but you’ll all get yours.