Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.

The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them.

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.

There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.

There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people. The president's going to have to get a touch of reality.

The only thing we have is each other.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.