...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

Worry is heavy weight.

Get busy to love everyone, you will not have time or opportunity to fight with anyone.

How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal farther?

Hatred - The anger of the weak.

There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.