It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

The monsters are in your own head

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

You can't be a winner if you're a whiner...wiener.

Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.

Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.]

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

The great presidents are people who watch out for others.

I always say, don't be a Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be a Muslim, be Mohammed-like. Be Buddha-like. Emulate these great spiritual Masters and what they were teaching.