My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

My life is mine to remember.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

My life is my argument.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

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

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

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

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

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

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

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!

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.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

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

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

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.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

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.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.