To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

The more I love, the more I find that life is magical.

They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring.

I talk too much when I'm nervous.