The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

A while ago, I wished upon a shooting star that one day I’d find someone to love…and now holding you in my arms makes me realize that wishes really do come true,

Is it that I can have fun, or i know not what it is that's fun?

The turkey - my number one thing that people don't get is take that sucker out of the refrigerator about three hours before you plan on cooking it.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success

I'm not trying to become the demon I'm fighting against

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.