I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Different cultures have different audiences.

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

Careers are not made in a family business, they are born – by patricide. Then they die from neglect, and avoid the tragedy of being put out of business.

There is no effort in time wasted by remembering the truth. A lie requires an effort of life and wasted time to remember because one lie tends to become a lifestyle that destroys.

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.

Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.