Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.

People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.

Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.

Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.

Emotional awareness is the tether between our Awakened and Dream States. It is the bridge that connects our island in the physical realm to the unexplored Universes that are waiting for us.

If you make time for the nonsense, good or bad, it will continue to seek you out.

Healing ultimately comes down to whether or not you have made the decision to do so.

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

When you have experienced the depth of your inner self, the idea of enlightenment is no longer a goal to strive towards, but rather an attitude to maintain.

The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede.

You are the most influential person in your life. You can embrace your strengths or give away your power. The choice is yours.

One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

I became a terrible drunk or alcoholic - or a good one depending on your point of view.

We lived in Chicago, but the music we were inspired by was from D. C.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.