You can feel small, insignificant and insubstantial, but knowing the universe is in your tiny body should be enough to make you happy.

If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

I think I have an awareness inside of me that we are all the same, that basically we are all part of that one heart.

The world can only seem a safe place when we feel safe inside.

No matter who you are, you have a giant self.

We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.

We all have something that centers us in our lives. That linchpin is something that when we don't do enough of it, we start to feel off center.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

And blood and tears and screams did not matter anymore, because at least they are together.

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

So, I bought a new CD and I was trying to get it open but couldn't with all the layers... I mean plastic and then tape, and the tape is like government tape. It says 'open here.' Is that sarcasm?

You’re nice to me because you think I’m pretty?” “And because you have brown eyes. I’m a sucker for big old brown eyes.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.