I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

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!

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

When written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

I’m no genius.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

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

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

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

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

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

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.