I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

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.

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.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

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.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Things do not change; we change.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Mine is better than ours.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.