The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Carry your candle of light to every dark place.

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.

While you're pregnant you're made to feel not beautiful or sexually viable. You're either sexy, or you're a mother. I didn't want to have to choose, so I challenged that.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

When you're hot, anything can happen.

Think of the most amazing thing you could possibly do with your life. Then say out loud, 'YES.'

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.