I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.

We can all be free Maybe not with words Maybe not with a look But with your mind

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.

I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.

Oh I do believe In all the things you see What comes is better Than what came before

I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.

Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.

I am human and I make mistakes.

I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a mother.

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us.

When you begin to run after miracles, Jesus feels insulted.

I have never compromised on academics and the one thing that I insist on is good grades, even though I am a relaxed and indulgent parent in most other things.

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.