Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

The monsters are in your own head

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

if anybody feels unworthy to enter heaven, well then at least let heaven enter his soul.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

The first one, we’ll name Blue.

My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

If you take the time to study how to be a doctor and how to use your scalpel and your medicine, then there are endless beings out there to help.