The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville.

Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.

I am a mom as well as a senator!

You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.

Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.

I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures