I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.

If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.

You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.

No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.

Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.

When Henry handed her a cup of punch she whispered, "If you want to go on with the seniors or anything I'll be alright."Henry smiled at her. "You're my date, Scout.

The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children.

A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.

We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.