We can fly, you know. We just don't know how to think the right thoughts and levitate ourselves off the ground.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything.

I'm trying to imitate Jesus in the fact that he said to be like children, to love children, to be as pure as children and to make yourself as innocent and to see the world through eyes of wonderment and the whole magical quality of it all.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

The foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an object of love. Before you know if you have red hair or brown, before you know if you are black or white, before you know of what religion you are a part, you have to know that you are loved

I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.