You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.

I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

Music has always felt very real to me.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.

if you hate someone..wish he love someone.

Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.

Those who succumb to pain find weakness in emotion and strength in reason.

Don't worry, everyone is mentally ill, they just haven’t figured out a name for yours yet.

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.