My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything, people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Different cultures have different audiences.

I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'.

Do not define your success in the context of just one situation or challenge you are currently battling or pursuing.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.

Prayer is such a great effort to most of us because we do not pray right.

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.