If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

I breastfeed and I'll be breastfeeding until my son is finished and he weans.

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it's our garden that is really nurturing us.

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.

That's all I want. Just you and me. Always.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.