It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

Different cultures have different audiences.

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.

He growled low in his throat. “I don’t think I can do this the nice way, Jessica.

Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.

Watch out world, we're here to change ya!

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

One needs to be right before getting righteous.

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.