I need space between me and the audience - and the more space the better.

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

Well, I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

Tanner: I think that I might kiss you to keep your lips busy with something other than insulting me.Ella: If you think you can do it without getting lost.

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw

I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Make the best of an emergency.

Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.