I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get.

I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

How can we claim to know God but deny Him in our action?

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.

Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

I don't think when you work you have to please everybody - you make a choice. It's not like everybody who is in front of you has to become your best friend.

I didn't get into music until the early 90s when I heard rap music for the first time.

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.

Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.