"I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years I'm like a giddy little kid."

"I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain."

"I think people should be able to do what they want to do."

"I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense!"

"It is a humble truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a subtle truth that the distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort."

"It is a timeless truth that clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect."

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."