There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad.

I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehowIt's life's illusions I recallI really don't know life at all

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

I just think the fact that I was told not to be curious about the dark side, and it was such a religious-heavy upbringing made me interested in goth culture.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

Hillary Clinton has no understanding of the economy at all.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

My world on the road always ends up feeling really small which is ironic because that's when I'm seeing the most places and meeting the most people!