I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful, Is sure to come your way

I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.

And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

One night I saw them kissing at a party, so I kissed some other guy. Johnny jumped up and hit him, cause he still loved me, that's why.

And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.

I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.

Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

Generation is the Important factor, of the Growth of Ideas.

Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.

A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.