I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.

I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

Every day is the start of something beautiful.

It's amazing, the look in your eyes, like you could save me, but you won't even try

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.

The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great!

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist

I want to chase the butterflies.

Living one's life with unguarded vulnerability is one of the keys to happiness. It's also one of the keys to getting mugged.

It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

Play hardball with Musharraf, but don't cut off US aid.

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.