I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.
I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.
I feel very fortunate to go surrounded by love. I'm proud of the life I lived.
Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.
Sleep with rockstars. . . Support the arts.