“I’m intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.”

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.

There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.

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.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Kindness always comes back.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.