Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it.

I think it's hard for you to fall in love because you like control, and you can't control what another person does or feels, so you keep all your cards.

I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I'm hurting. But isn't that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.

You shouldn't have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.

That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.

We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It's just the reactions we control.

We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.

Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.

An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect.

Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

I don’t love just men. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with.

Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.

The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I'm getting anywhere.

Keep an open mind---but not so open your brain falls out.

The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.