“If I feel like I’ve done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.”

Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he’s got his heart in the right place.

I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that

Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now.

Don’t think whether it’s a hit or not and people will get you.

Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have.

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism – because that’s mainly what I’ve been exposed to – was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction.

That’s the strange thing about making a record.

China is one of the last huge dictatorships, holding on to these colonies, provinces.

The situation with Tibet has to change.

That has to collapse. It’s the responsibility of heads of business who are going to do business in China to lay down the law.

I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through.

All of it has an effect.

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face ’cause I love to do it

I’m not just talking about what you put on a record – even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.

Like you’d feel if you have a cold, so I didn’t really think it was anything.

People need to be more aware of how they’re affecting people.

Betrayed or apparently not Loved.

Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense.

The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don’t like

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy.