I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.

You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.

Reading is the fountain of all knowledge.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.

Rebuke them that violates the principles of kingdom of God

Praise the sea on shore remain.

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.

So let's talk about Islam the way we talk about everything else.

A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.

There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.

Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!