I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.

Happy endings happen every day we share our generosity, peace, compassion, kindness, respect, timeless love and joy with our love ones, friends and others.

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.

Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.

I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I was a child, I preferred playing with plastic soldiers.

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.

I'm afraid I go through the same thing all the time.