More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.

I don't need a man to be happy.

Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up.

Life is an adventure in growing up, and when you have lost a lot of people you realize each day is a gift.

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.

Hell, I've always like the man, " he said now. "Until he became involved with my wife.

I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.