It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

The world is a drought when out of love.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

When we develop a right attitude of compassion and gratitude, we take a giant step towards solving our personal and international problems

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

Do Mom and Dad know you’re dating a homicidal lunatic? (Madaug) No, and if you tell them, I’ll superglue your fingertips to your keyboard. (Eric)

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.