There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

"We are all the sum of our choices, but also of the choices made for us by others."

"Sometimes, you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes, it makes you love them more."

你看得越多，看到的就越多。

Every album is a snapshot of where I was at that time in my life.

I don't have time to hate people who hate me, because I'm too busy loving people who love me.

艺术家必须先创造火花，才能点燃火焰。