As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK.

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

Nobody's perfect, but at the same time, I always try to learn from my mistakes.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.

People should be judged on the things they do, not how they look.

Sometimes I shut up cause I'm afraid I don't have anything interesting to tell anyway

Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.

OH MY GOD! In Thailand, they've got the spiciest food I've ever had in my life!

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

The ocean does something to me that is unexplainable. Just being out there and realizing im alive.

What God has planned for us is far better than what we desire to behold.

Every living creature breathes.

Be a true romantic. Always ruminate about the true beauty of life.

The state of no being is pure.

Fish to taste right must swim three times - in water in butter and in wine.

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

It's not just children who need heroes.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.