Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club.

The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.

Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.

One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.

When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it.

I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

Live daringly.

Look around your competitors and learn from them.Look within for your talents and exploit them.Look back at your failures and learn from them.Look forward to your successes and reach for them.

Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

My mother would always say that we had to look very presumida, and I took that to heart. Latinas take a lot of pride in looking their best and that might mean putting a little mascara on.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

[I like to] engage with funny people, or weird people, or, you know, kind of off people. [Whereas when I meet] anybody who's ... normal ... I'm not curious, I'm not interested.

The stuff I'm working on is quite dense. I'm seeing every four bars as a scene in a film.

I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.