I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

Love, love will be my strongest weapon

The only thing to fear is fearlessness.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

It’s not just picking the right friends. It is being the right friend.

Encourage means to put courage into, and discourage is to take courage away. Don't be a courage thief.

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods.

I always knew what I was doing.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

At the front of my home, in the garden, is a huge piece of clear quartz.

I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.