To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life....

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people..

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else..

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s..

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I ….

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It rea….

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah..

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play..

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fo….

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him..

I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off..

The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the tea….

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator..

I think dying is the ultimate high....

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radi….

It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling ….

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know a….

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch..

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish ….

I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was ….

Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out ther….