In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

If you posses enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find that you are not alone.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.