I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.

Mother's hug- The only drug that works every time, costs nothing and has no side effects.

Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.

Carlos Ruiz has been there, done that. I've seen it firsthand. He's gotten huge hits off me before in the post-season. He's been there. He's calm. He's confident back there.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.