You are not happy when you feel happy, you are happy when you are happy.

Live life, because when you stop and look around, you see a wonderful world.

You can be what you dream.

Believe in yourself, then others will believe in yourself.

There's always time to launch your dreams

Strive toward what you know you must achieve, in confident & courageous manner.

I was inspired by my son on the song 'The Most Beautiful People Are Broken.' Life is an extra challenge for him. But he does it all with such great grace and courage.

Owning our past allows us to own our future.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg.

I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols

Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.