If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

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...

You have to see the good in yourself before expecting someone else to see the good in you. Be aware of who you are and what you can truly be.

Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required to spend a month serving in a homeless shelter to learn love.

I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.

If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.

Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.

The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer