Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

My mom is cool and my mom will treat you right.

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship.

'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out.

I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.

I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.

Lets go eat a God damn snack

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.