I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Words define you.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

I take the Bible literally, but not seriously.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

You're an idiot. Study harder.

For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.

I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.