Value the people who value YOU.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.

No one can fill those of your needs that you won't let show.

When you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.

Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.

If you start sweet, then you've got somewhere to go.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.

Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction.

Liam recoiled as if I'd hoofed him in the danglies.

A mentor, a 'teacher, ' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

If someone really loves you, they'll do the right thing... for you.

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and you’ll find them.

You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.