I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

Honesty is all you need.

I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

If you really think you're right, you should tell it.

I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, "Look who's talking".

I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.

There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

Having the baby changed my life a lot. I don't want to go on the road.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

The imagination needs moodling, --long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.

Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.

It's nice to be in a movie that hasn't been absolutely slaughtered by the press.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.

Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.