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.

The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

If you don’t know history, you don’t know anything.”Edward Johnston

Water generates electricity and hence if we waste water, we will be in the dark world.

Make haste cautiously.

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

I think living in a new country gives you a certain bravery that you don't have when you live in your own country - because of the freedom it gives you.

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree?

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.