We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.

I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.

Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.

When you have the same dream over and over again, your brain is trying to solve a problem. It knows there's an answer.

Don’t depend on others tofuel your self-belief.Develop your self-belief so thatit becomes self-sustaining.

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.

Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.

Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.

My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

As Regis Mckenna once said, the best marketing is education