The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself.

Gratitude opens overflowing of heavenly blessings.

Be the Kind of Woman that when Your Feet Hit the Floor Each Morning, the Devil Says, ‘Oh Crap, She’s Up!

I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.