I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I feel connected to whatever is out there.

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.

I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be .

I put myself into character for my songs.

Live the best life in every moment.

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

Beautify your thoughts. Thoughts are the headwaters of action, life and manifestation.

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

Uh-huh, right. Let me count all the ways you and I aren't going there.

I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.