I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.

I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled.

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment.

Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

Getting caught masturbating sucks. I got caught masturbating in jail 7 or 8 times, it really sucks.

And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet.

Children aren't just our future. They're our present.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intention.

You are that blue-white diamond, so treat yourself like a Tiffany.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds

Close your eyes and let music set you free.

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

Priorities lie in your actions

Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.