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"I love people. I love every fucked up and beautiful thing about us."
"When I was 18, I went through a premature mid-life crisis. So many of us are asked to compromise our pride and health in order to have these roofs over our heads. And I didn't know how to face consciousness everyday just passing time. I didn't feel like I had any purpose in my life. My hands and my creativity was going to waste. But I never even thought I could sing and make a living because that was a hobby. A lot of us just aren't taught that something you love can make you money. It wasn't until I got fired from my last job that I decided: That's it. I don't care. I'd rather die and drop out of the world rather than wake up everyday and be so unhappy. I never thought I'd get a record deal; I just wanted to eat and do something I liked. It turned into this. And it's been a real blessing."
"Sometimes I want to take that Volkswagon and affix it to a burning cross."
"I kept trying to figure out why people in the press thought I was so stupid,
I kept gettting typified as this Pollyanna neohippie. I think it's because
I have a different definition of optimism. I've noticed a belief that somehow optimism lacks
intelligence and that optimism stems from a lack ot experience and naivete. I don't believe that.
I believe optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter, it's just safer."
"We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others
prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable."
"In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself."
"I love life and I love that about people... I adore the human experience, I
really adore the darknesses... I love the contradictions of people... I don't
mind being sexy and girlish and womanly, and all those things at the same
time... smart and very naive, you know those kinds of things, I like them
about people... I like our rough edges."
"In the end only kindness matters."
"The things you fear are undefeatable. Not by their nature but by your approach."
"In the tenth grade, I was fascinated with the question "what was immortality?"
I read numerous philosophies, but the theory which has stayed with me was that
of Plato, the Symposium. The idea that through Love and Beauty we achieve
immortality. Putting all our soul in our work makes it not only alive with
passion and emotion, but also it exists as one of the truest and most honest
expressions of self. Making life a beautiful art, the art then retaining life.
I still believe Beauty is one of the most important and difficult things to
create and express."
"We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend."
"What we call human nature in actuality is human habit."
"I felt in my life very suffocated and smothered by my circumstance. Your life
becomes what you believe. I was living in a house with my mom and my younger
brother and we were all sharing rent and wasn't really making rent. Didn't get
to eat, I scraped food off of people's plates where I waitressed, I stole
toilet paper from fast food restaurants... I got fired from my last job and
that was it. My mom was like we're just going to do what we love, and we're
gonna just have faith. So I lived in my van, and she lived in her van. And I
decided, fine, I'll die, but I want to go to college. I'll die, I don't want
to go to work and waitress. I want to do what I love only. I love singing, I
never really thought I could make a living at it, it was dreaming. Zen,
Buddha, God, Jesus, Trees, whatever is out there, what I want is. I want to
make a living doing what I love, you know?"
"Drive fast and take chances"
"In the end these steel cages will consume us all."
"I'm sorry I didn't have a match big enouge to catch fire to your heart."
"One of my favorite works was Plato's "Symposium"... and I really liked it
because it suggested in that that through love and through beauty we achieve
immortality, only because as art [it is] one of the most conscious and honest
expressions of ourselves... But if we really put all of our passion into
something, it will breathe, like a good sculpture, like a good Michelangelo, or
Klimt I love. So what a beautiful thing to make your life your artwork, you
know... and to really pull in every experience you want and need and take that
kind of conscious control over it."
"Hands manifest thoughts."
"You said time knew nothing. Well now your gone, and time is all we have left."
"I Believe In Angels
I Believe That In My Loneliest Moments
I have Not Been Alone
That No One Truly Is."
"Sometimes asking the question limits the answer"
"Grace is the refinement of a soul through time."
"I believe your mind creates your world, your life is the emotional perception."
"People look at me in magazines and feel like I'm a phenomenon, as if what I've accomplished is beyond their ability. I tell them to knock it off. If you respect what I've done, then do something yourself."
"We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people...we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us."
"The things you fear are undefeatable. Not by their nature but by your approach."
"In the bible only angels have wings and the rest must wait to be saved."
"Such injustice, as children we are told that from God we fell. Where are my angels? Where's my golden one? Where's my hope now that my heroes have gone?"
If this is what love is then I guess there's no love song left in me."
"If you were flame I'd allow myself to be consumed completely."
"There are plenty of people who pray for peace, but if praying were enough it would have come to be."
"The red light has been following me, but don't worry mother it's no longer my gravity."
"Hold me, release me, show me the meaning of mercy let me loose, let me fly."
"There is this hunger, this restlessness inside of me, and it knows that you're no stranger you're my gravity."
"I sit on logs like pulpits, listen to the sermon of sparrows, and find God in simplicity, there amongst the dandelion and thorn."
"Reality is a funny thing, you know... Reality is what you believe; believe
it to be. It's what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands
physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what
you think."
"In nature, where everything has such intrinsic balance, spirituality
should reflect the same balance, and you should live in balance with your
sexuality, with your mind, with your intellect, with your heart, as with
your spirit."
