My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn’t a good idea.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday tomorrow, go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!

God is in control and knowing that at the end of the day what happens - whether I'm comfortable with it or not or afraid of it or not - that God is in control.

I used to be so afraid to say what I really think.

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

The erotic drive is the great energy that moves through all evolution.What about love? Where does that fit in?Love's simply the handmaiden of the great energy, and an excuse to write suspect poetry.

The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.

Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

the look of the sky as the day's blue blood runs out of its cheek.

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.

The rain, it raineth every day.