A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.