I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic.

I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.

Music has been more, you know, the only thing I've ever known.

The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.

I just never doubted myself. I always knew I was going to do something.

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

On the way toward success, obstacles are the barrier to build the power of the mind.

Lead a meaningful life. We are here for a purpose. To make this world a beautiful place.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can

Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'.

We are all the same ... all the same... longing to find our way back ... back to the One ... back to the Only One!