But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Live for each second without hesitation

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

When you've been lost as I have, " he once said, "you get good at finding your way home.

If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck.

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it.

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted.... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated.