In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.

I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.

I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better.

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?