We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.

People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's true at all. What's cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide.

Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late.

If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much I've been through, but most importantly how far I have come.

My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die.

Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life.He was the bad boy, black sheep, the one your mother always warned you about.He had only one hard-and-fast rule-Don't Fall In Love

I realized if I didn’t just go, I’d never go. Going was the key. It didn’t matter where I was headed just as long as I was headed somewhere. ~ Ben Davis

What you deny or ignore, you delay, What you accept and face, you conquer.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.

Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission.