A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over.

Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

Fashion magazine disease articles. My personal Kryptonite.

Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.

Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.

Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.

I'm used to desperate, buddy. Desperate's my factory default. But thanks anyway.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

They hate us because we don't even know why they hate us.

It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?

People are still trying to figure out who I am. Most people just say I play the game the right way.

I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.

I like getting up early. I get up around five.

Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.