I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths.

Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.

If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be.

I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.

The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

Don’t be afraid to be yourself and don’t let anybody tell you that that’s wrong. Because the best thing is you.

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze of"it used to be likes" forever remembering, yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

All men die in solitude

I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.

I've got another friend who is half-German and half-Polish. He hates Jews but can't remember why!

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.