I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled.

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment.

Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

Getting caught masturbating sucks. I got caught masturbating in jail 7 or 8 times, it really sucks.

And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet.

Children aren't just our future. They're our present.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Quin lay down next to me and buried his face in my neck. I felt everything hidden and heavy inside him collapse in my arms. His hot tears joined with mine."I need you.""I know, " I answered.

The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.

There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.

I'm super careful with my skin and make sure to protect it. I always sit under an umbrella. And I'm a sunblock bully. If you're on the beach with me, I will spray you down with SPF 50-plus.

Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.

Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you.