My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one?

On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.

I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.

You're the father of the person who is my life.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!