You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.

I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing... Get press not stress.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.