My brain can think faster than I can, Im not fast enough. Who is there to talk to that wont lock me up?

We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes.

Don't stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die.

The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

I don't consider myself a religious person, but I consider myself a very spiritual person. I would say I have a relationship with God, I believe in God, I do.

As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.

All the breakthroughs and miracles you need are in people

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.

A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.

I'm a [Bob] Dylan freak, like everybody else.

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

Confidence is not based on you having all the resources needed to take care of yourself; confidence is based upon the truth that God is faithful.

You are a real champion. You talk a lot over the past six months and it is going to be great to show you inside the ring how it is better to resolve wars. Let's talk in the office.

I never exploited my father’s role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...