"Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it."

"Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day."

"I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!"

"Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more."

"It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people."

"After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works."

"Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truely die."

"Those who have loved are those that have found God"

"I'm satisfied and proud of the things I did - even the bumps and the bruises that I've had on the way. You fall down, you get up, you brush yourself off and you keep going. And that's what we're doing."

"When I might be on a business trip, a lot of people are partying and they may be drunk or under the influence of something that I'm not under the influence of, and that might influence their actions. I'm not even blaming them, but being in the club and not knowing what everybody's motives are, I have to take precautions damn near every week, especially when I go out of town."

"My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop."

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."

"I think there should be a constitutional amendment making it impossible for anyone to be president who believes in an afterlife."

"...,I have never visited any city in the world where I was not told that I just missed the golden age. I seem never to be on time." Cyrus Sitema"

"If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well."

"Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none."

"Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral."

"The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg."

"How hungrily we read about ourselves!"

"We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in."

"I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not."

"In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death"

"Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well."