My anger tempted the act of delinquency and it felt good to dabble.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

If you listen to many wise sayings, you will develop a strong-mind

Avoid anger

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.