If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

My wife watches me like a hawk.

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

I don't remember the first stunt I ever did.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.

It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.