I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

Someone once asked me, 'How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, 'With both hands, of course...'

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.

To see from all the “view points” is called ‘Gnan’ [True Knowledge].

Keep seeking the spirituality of thy soul.

Memories are never as true as the things one forgets.

Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

I'm convinced nonviolence can be successful in working for positive change in our relations with other countries right now.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.