Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

At home, they'd clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn't fall. Here, they bandaged one another's broken wings, helped each other fly.

I never thought it was fair that anatomy decided what my brain was fit for.

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

America has everything, why should they want us.

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love.

You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.