“Things are strongest where they're broken.”

“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people”

“Everything feels right with the world…
… and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.”

“The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”

“Broken things are powerful.”

“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”

“"It's a terrible cliche, but they are the most important thing in my life. More than any album. They're where it's at." (2001) (about wife Morleigh and his children)”

“Isn't Scientology one of those things where you really like someone and once you hear they're a Scientologist, you're like "I'm out?"”

“But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.”

“If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.”