Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

There’s no such thing as free kittens.

It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________, ” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.

Success is that old ABC-Ability Breaks and Courage.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Chaos is the only thing that honestly wants you to grow. The only friend who really helps you be creative.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.