Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.

Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?

I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.

Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.

Follow your heart and you won't get lost.

The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.

I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.

I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

There are no prizes for defying yourself.

Your achievements die with you.Your deeds live on as your legacy!

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

Sadness is not always the worst feeling. Sometimes it's a really pleasurable thing to be overwhelmed with sadness.

My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

I like you being the sinner you are. -Adrian Ivashkov

The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world.

Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.