Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter.

You have to be odd to be number one.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

The warrior of the Light sits around a fire with his companions.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.