I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

If you want your life to be a five-star reality, you have to stop settling for a fast food mentality!

Buy books. Unlike high calorie food, they don't give heart attacks.

People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too.

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

Of course I can see you. I'm not blind, you know. Oh, but you are. You just don't know it.

Somebody tells me no, they're not going to keep telling me no, because I'm going to bother them to the point where it's a lot easier for them to say yes than keep saying no.

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

In order to have peace, we must first have trust.