I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

I think that when you're open, you're at your most powerful.

Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue.

Recording music is not really the healthiest thing for the body.

a hero is just somebody who does the right thing when it would be far, far easier to do nothing.”-Cedric Diggory-

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

There is also a philosophy of less-is-more, and a little dignity that never hurt anybody. There are many qualities to admire about our father's generation.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy.

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.