I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.

Is not our capacity to choose, to chase, to dream of becoming other than we are, more powerful then the patterns of the stars?

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

Hillary Clinton has been outsmarted and outplayed worse than anybody I've ever seen in any government whatsoever.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.