Anger cannot be dishonest.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

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

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

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

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Love is only one of many passions.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

I just want to be myself.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.