I've always dressed like a dude.

We can all be free Maybe not with words Maybe not with a look But with your mind

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.

I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.

Oh I do believe In all the things you see What comes is better Than what came before

I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.

Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.

I am human and I make mistakes.

I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

Everyone who dies out there dies of confusion.

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

Men do with opportunities as children do at the seashore they fill their little hands with sand and then let the grains fall through one by one till all are gone.

I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead...'

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.

As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.

The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude