“Because we don't wanna assimilate to someone else's (boy) standards of what is or isn't.”

“(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.”

“Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”

“if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

“I don't ever wanna wake up, looking into someone else's eyes.
Another voice calling me baby on the other end of the phone.
A new girl putting on her makeup before dinner on Friday night.
No, I don't ever wanna know. Oh, oh.
No other shotgun rider, beside me, singin' to the radio.
Oh, oh. Oh, oh.”

“Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”

“I'm in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. Because isn't that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn't that the simple magic phrase?”

“Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins … there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.”

“Isn't it better to be alone than pretend you're someone else? Be you. Find you. Be happy with that.”

“You don't get it boy… this isn't a mudhole… its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surgeon.”