It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.

I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

Music has always felt very real to me.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.

One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do. All you need to make sure is that your trips to beach never end.

Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.

Some negative things in life will never change, but try not to let them change you.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

You don't manage priorities, you have them.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.