The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

Please take a long, hard look at your textbook, cause I'm history

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in most cases, is going to be extremely destructive.

The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.

My main objective with a home studio - I could get into doing full band demos - but my first objective is to cut things like guitar tracks and solos at home.

A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

When you hear a good traditional gospel song it makes you wanna go buy a three piece suit

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.