It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

Vanity is but the surface.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Character is power.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

My whole life, I’ve sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I’ve had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

‚Jolene‘ has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.