Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare

I needed a break... from myself.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.

I'm superstitious. I keep mum while I'm working on something.

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!