Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here

I've never met anyone that is their image.

You could either go the traditional way or the other way. I went the other way.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

Is happiness found in the nest where there's no hardship? Or is it in the outer world with vast sky? When the time comes, what would you keep and what would you abandon?

I'm connected to religion and that's how I access God. I'm in a relationship with God that can sometimes be informed by religion, but not dependent on religion.

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

Important moments like this are time to reflect. To remind us, sometimes, that it's not only important what you wear, but it's also important to be aware.

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

I say no to doubt and yes to life!