I want to light the lights of patriotism.

When I get recognized for 'Twilight ' it's usually a teenage girl and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

The stars that nature hung in heaven and filled their lamps with everlasting oil give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye looking on finds its own.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves chearful meadows and high distant forests which in grand order presented themselves to view.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds in wheels shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush's eggs look little low heavens and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

A light wind swept over the corn and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

I knew of course that trees and plants had roots stems bark branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Nature is so powerful so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

It is not light that we need but fire it is not the gentle shower but thunder. We need the storm the whirlwind and the earthquake.

Come forth into the light of things let nature be your teacher.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Writing has laws of perspective of light and shade just as painting does or music. If you are born knowing them fine. If not learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

Ah reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

In essence String Theory describes space and time matter and energy gravity and light indeed all of God's creation... as music.

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet but something's going wrong.

Music is my shining light my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!