I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Consider everything an experiment.

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

I don't like it when it stings, ' he said. 'Nobody does.

To be defeated is only a fable in which one may tell of oneself. I will try and I will try again, though never shall I call it failure. I am simply one step closer to thy truth.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.

That's because I'm made of awesome." "And dipped in awesome." "And sprinkled with awesome." "Gods, I love the taste of awesome.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

I don't think it's that bad, I mean, I love people following me around and helping me do stuff.