Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

Every single soul is a poem.

We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.

It is the transience of life which proves its inestimable worth.

While I cannot prevent the birds from flying over my head, I can prevent them from making a nest in my hair. - Chapter 5 My Cinderella

I'd rather have an inch of dog than miles of pedigree.

Telling a one-sided story doesn't allow for others to have self-love.

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.

Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

Swift as shadow, short as any dream