“When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.”

“Our egos are always trying to find happiness where [it] can't be found. One can't find true, lasting happiness outside of themselves. Whatever happiness you find outside of yourself, can be taken away. And in time, it will be taken away, because the nature of everything that exists, everything you can observe, everything that is around you, is that it is impermanent.”

“Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.”

“Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.”

“Do not kill your ego and do not let your ego to kill you. Control your ego and rule over it.”

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family.”

“You have to blow off your family. You have to blow off comfort. You have to blow off money…. You have to blow off your ego. You have to blow off everything except your guitar.”

“Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.”

“You can have all ego, or all non-ego, but in theory you cannot have half one and half the other — yet in practice this is exactly what you must have, for everything is both itself and not itself at one and the same time.”

“When you live life with him or without him, that is when he will accept and value you for who you are.”