“We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.”

If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.

I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.

It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.

Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.

When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.

It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.

When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.

Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It’s the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.

I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.

We’ve come a long way, from where we’ve been. I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again.

I think that the “what if” game is what you guys get to do. I don’t have to do that. I hate the “what if” game. I’m such a believer in everything happening the way it’s supposed to happen.

Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It’s my way to communicate.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that’s just the way it is.

I’m all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.