It's so rare that I'll read or even watch an interview. I don't want to, either. I don't want to see other people's comments.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

I think that when you're open, you're at your most powerful.

Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.

I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue.

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.

The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.

Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game.

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.