I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person.

A great song is the reason you want to jump out of your bed in the morning.

I'd be the outsider gal who undergoes a makeover in the end [in the 'The Breakfast Club' ].

I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.

My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.

They know your face, but not your mind.They understand your words, but not your heart.They hear your name, but not your soul.They grasp your past, but not your future.

A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.

Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel guiding the way.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

If we succeeded, we will have the primary satisfaction of ending the war

[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.