Music has always felt very real to me.

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.

I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.

The energy of life is force of faith.

Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in other people. Share the truth and be ready for the miracle to unfold

When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.

Everyday is a new opportunity.