I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Sneakers are not my thing.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

When God is seeking a person, he will not allow my fear, my feeling of intimidation or my lack of knowledge or experience to prevent that person from finding him.

The more you kick me when I'm down, the more it truly helps.