As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.

Imitate the sun. Don't worry if people understand you. Just shine shine shine.

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

I watch a lot of TV and I got some new hair products.

I've tried to make music that's more universal, but for me, it's most successful emotionally when it's most specific to what I'm going through.

In the silence, hear what can't be heard.

There's a great expression that says, "God is a jealous lover," and it's a very accurate expression that has nothing to do with whatever you see god or nature as.

Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.

There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money.

If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

My space is small. My life is big.

Modeling is the most powerful of all teachers!

When I'm directing I'm working from 100% of my brain, but when I'm acting I'm working from my heart.

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.