“Men are not as sophisticated as women. They’re not as mature as women. They’re not as connected with their emotions as women…”

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She’s so sweet and adorable and hilarious.

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it’s a hit.

Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you’re left feeling hollow and empty.

It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn’t do things right and had a poor business model.

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history.

I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I’m not just going to leap into it, because that’s not good for anybody.

There’s nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.

I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that’s fine, no problem with that.

Before I go on stage, I pretend that everyone loves me.

Yoga carves you into a different person – and that is satisfying physically.

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

Roads taken far away from you are many. Do not fear, Mother; they all lead back.

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers – he’s one of my heroes. Al Green, too.

When you commit to being a musician, I don’t think you’re really sure or care about when you’re going to pay the bills.

They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.

This complexity is what creates that which we all know – the World – is connected in a system of networks – and I’m not referring only to the internet but also to thousands of analog networks in which we are all immersed at every instant.

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me – maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.

You have 37.2 trillion cells in your body. There is vastness outside you and vastness inside you. You are connected to this mystery, you are a microcosm of the universe, and every aspect of your life benefits from the universe’s provision.

Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.

Like ‘naive,’ ‘impulsive’ and ‘way too connected online,’ are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.