My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.

I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

You must seek the divinity within with all your heart, soul and mind.

I hear he liked flowers pretty well.""Yes, " said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him."--"Out, Brief Candle

To establish the kingdom of love is to live in dominion

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

Not that I'm a fan of Bernie Sanders, but a lot of Bernie people voted for Trump. You know why? Because he's right on one issue: Trade. He was right about trade.

I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president.

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.