Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?

Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you

At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.

The world is waiting to hear from you.

When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

A smile cures the wounding of a frown.