When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.

I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

Everyone wants to be well-loved and appreciated but, at the same time, there are some people that just don't want to be your friend, and there's nothing you can do or say to change that.

Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, "It makes me think." I love that quote. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's true.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

Revenge of the Giant Grill Man.

We will have a happy marriage if it kills him.

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

Hang him, swaggering rascal!