The message was clear for baby boomers everywhere: Kurt Cobain was not merely some rock 'n' roll icon who couldn't handle drugs. In ways that were important to recognize, he was every parent's child.

When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance.

He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives.

We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.

Where even a sliver of love exists the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.