You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

The best birthday present I ever got was born 10 minutes before I was.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make it feel natural even though it's programmed.