You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

The past does not influence me

My highest calling is to love endlessly.

The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.