I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song about me ?' So I wrote 'She's got balls'. Then she divorced me.
Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.
The world 'out there' won't change until the world 'in here' does.
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.
Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities
The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation. . What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon. '
The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be!
Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.