I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled.

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment.

Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

Getting caught masturbating sucks. I got caught masturbating in jail 7 or 8 times, it really sucks.

And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet.

Children aren't just our future. They're our present.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

The starvation of a child has no justification, even if the crops have failed, or the population is too large.

Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity.

When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe.

Whether they're glad or mortified to have said whatever, Paul Fein wasn't going to let such good quotes get away from us.

I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.

We are all members of a larger community which depends on everyone playing a part.

An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if you're a true artist you're willing to die for what you believe in.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing.