There is a big difference between being busy and being productive. Regardless of how busy one is, one's success can only come from relentless productivity.

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.

I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that is not necessarily reflected in straight news coverage right now.

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.

Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.

I only attract loving people in my world for they are a mirror of what I am.

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?