“This is the voice of your ego. If you listen to it, there will always be someone who seems to be doing better than you.”

The peace that we’re after lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire, faith leaps over it.

Originality is really important.

Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

If done right, kidnapping can be a positive experience for everyone.

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.

I’ve always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.

In the music industry, there’s often a lot of egos and people aren’t always very supportive, but we cheer each other on and we push each other to be better.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Spend more time listening to your heart and less time listening to your ego.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.