Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.

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.

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.

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.

April Fools' is the only day to take people seriously.

Your dreams are desperately counting on you to introduce them to their realities.

He who accumulates has little. He who gives away has much.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

The biggest enemy of an artist is apathy... A kid gets killed by the police and I buy a T-shirt and before I can wear that one, there's another kid (killed) and I'm running out of closet space.

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.

I demand more from myself than anybody could ever expect.

All that the socialists understand about money is the fact that they want it from others.

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.