I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

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.

Not all the truths are told, dreams are shattered, words are unspoken, memories are haunting but the imagination is still fighting to settle down.

The right vision to a wrong person is like the right seed to wrong soil.

I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.

The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.

Learn to laugh at your problems, cause everybody else does.

Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.

My fans are really loud but they are great. I've never liked someone so much to go up and scream that loud.

I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid. I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away.

We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.

If they [Guns N' Roses] didn't get back together soon they would have missed their window and no one would have cared in 3 or 4 years.