Every true artist is at war with the world.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

Love is eternal, and growing with each breath, every kind thought, word and deed.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Life doesn't stop with football.

When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.