Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

In the end only kindness matters.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Reality is what you believe it to be. It's what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.

Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

performance is an act of faith.

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.