I hope everyone wakes up and appreciates life.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

Death is certain. Nobody can escape it. Then why fear death? Live till you die!

The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.

But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.

Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

Things will go wrong or end up differently than you had imagined, and that's OK. Life isn't about being perfect. It's about being the best you can possibly be and finding the good in everything.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

There's a lot of wounded people out there who don't believe that there's any way they'll ever be healed from those wounds.

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.