I believe in nature instead of God.

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

Wavering and burning like a golden lie.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

Pick a side? You done picked the wrong side.

I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.

Hung verdict would have meant anger against previous govt; Clear verdict to BJP shows people voted for hope and aspiration.

The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

I was always a dreamer with high aspirations, but I kept coming up short my whole life.