During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.

Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Only dumb people are happy.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.