I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

Allow your mood to be sweet and your day will be sweet too.

Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

Integrity needs no rules.

It's not that I literally believe in magic or spirits. In my logical life I absolutely don't believe in any kind of mumbo jumbo. But I do have this belief in the greater magic of the universe.

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.