"I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful."

"My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things."

"I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life."

"America's a very traumatized society."

"It is a subtle truth that the seeds of triumph are sown in the quiet mornings when no one is watching — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest."

"Wisdom principle 89 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 21."