Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

一个奇怪的悖论是，当我接受自己本来的样子时，我就能改变。

Every song tells a story, and every story has a song.

创新不仅仅是创造新事物；而是让现有的变得更好。

I don't sing to be perfect, I sing to be alive.

我从不写政治歌曲，歌曲拯救不了世界，我已经看透了一切。