The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.

If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.