Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

Thanks to the Internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.

The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder. It can never be applied fairly.

By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.