When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

Every day is the start of something beautiful.

It's amazing, the look in your eyes, like you could save me, but you won't even try

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.

The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.

May you find grace to be great.

Such a funny thing death is for mortals. You cry. You morn. You grieve. You get angry. But death is not always tragic, dear one. Sometimes death is the ultimate expression of love.

Reading is a bridge from misery to hope.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.