"I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song."

“My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.”

“The President wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a terrorist called Christopher Columbus. I want to talk about a terrorist called George Washington. I want to talk about a terrorist called Rudy Giuliani. The real terrorists have always been the United Snakes of America.”

“We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.”

Source : "25 million of us buy his skinny lattes every week" by John Carlin, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2003.

“Have your friends collect your records and then change your number...”

Source : Song: Somebody That I Used to Know, Album: Making Mirrors, 2011

“Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.”

“Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety.”

“Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It doesn’t honor God to pretend everything is OK. That’s the beauty of Jesus that so many people miss. The beauty is that he died on the cross for our sins, but also that he existed the way we exist.”