Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.

If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Who Are We to Tell Anyone What They Can or Can't Do?

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Life is full of great opportunities.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

Baby girl, Cross is a tsunami.

What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.