'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

She gives the night its dreams.

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

Everybody is influenced by someone.

Keep your heart pure. Overlook an insult.

Call your heroes. They have telephones too.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.

My own preferred fitness regime is to use my bicycle.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

The high that I got from helping people and being around the love was better than any other high I've gotten from any drug

I enjoy being on my own. I feel like I have more room to stretch. I have to go with the flow.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.