I hate show business.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

And who isn’t less innocent than they lead us to believe? That’s one of the fundamental truths about human nature.

Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him.

One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.

Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.