I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.

People think it's a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.

My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

I think you have to start taking a few risks and sometimes they don't pay off.

Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.

When there is no feeling of accomplishment children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

I want to roll my eyes right now, but the doctor says that if I keep doing it, my ocular muscles might spasm and eject my eyeballs.

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

Make youself necessary to someone.

Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.