I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

You never know when you're making a memory.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person but you.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Jesus never made miracles the center of His gospel.

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

Clint Eastwood's a good friend, too - he and I used to play in softball games together.

There's no right time to have kids and no perfect formula. The good news is there isn't a wrong way, either.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

I will put honesty before the risk of humiliation.