I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Many admire, few know.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

The people in my songs are all me.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

I think I have always had a little humor.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

No man is hurt but by himself.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘