Elections aren't supposed to be for sale... it's that simple.

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don't have any ID.

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.

I love talk shows and hosting. I would want to do something like that. I'm not sure I would want to be a reality star continuously.

The Democrats are the people who willingly allow their testicles in a lockbox somewhere.

A realized being would not be making any fresh karma because karma is very much connected to the ego but would still be receiving the results of past karma.

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.