“If you're alone with your thoughts for too long, bad things can happen...” — Ruel Quote

“If you're alone with your thoughts for too long, bad things can happen. I start to think about something and make something out of nothing. And I just focus on one thing and think of all the terrible things that could happen from that.”

“To me, songwriting is exaggerating to an extent.”

“As a kid, when you think of being a singer travelling around the world, you think of just the great things. Getting money, living in mansions, playing to fans. When I was really young, that's all I thought it was.”

“When people say they don't read the comments, they're lying. Everyone reads the comments, whatever status you're at.”

“As a kid you're always going to be told you can't do things for certain reasons, and to an extent that's okay.”

“Ah, it's just so soothing, and I'd like to make my own. When I listen to ambient music, I'm like 'Oh, but I would've done this here.'”

“I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.”

“You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.”

“In North Koreans, the moment we are born, we don't know there's another life existing outside of our country. The regime always told us all the bad things about the outside world, describing America as full of thieves, all human scum, beggars, everyday people dying on the streets and hospitals.”

“A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.”

“Like everybody, you get nights where you feel completely depressed. You start thinking about all the bad things and think about the glass half empty - instead of half full. There's no explanation for it.”

“The idea of my parents was to keep us away from the streets. Gelsenkirchen is not a rich city. The crime is above average so they always tried to keep us away from bad things, and I think they were successful.”