I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

The monsters are in your own head

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

Money can buy some things to create happiness, but it can never buy happiness.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking you can't buy friendships.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

BSB are my personal favorites.

Our galaxy is 10 billion years old. The Earth is only 4.5 billion years old. We are a firefly flicker in the great astrobiology of the galaxy.

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

Marriage is a total commitment and a total sharing of the total person with another person until death.