Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.

Love awakens the divinity of the soul.

Because the moon is not jealous of the sun, it benefits from its light.

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time.

When you have a choice, choose happy!

Whatever I did lyrically or vocally, just to try and get better at everything.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.