"I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since..." - Quote by Taylor Swift

“Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly.”

“Your success, your life, your happiness. Don't let mean people bring that down.”

“My imagination is a twisted place.”

“If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”

“Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.”

“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.”

“My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.”

“I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.”

“The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.”