I'm not Christian, but I'm religious. I believe in a higher God and beings and spirits.

I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass?

I never made music for that crowd. I never made music to fit in. I made music of what I like to hear.

This world is too comfort to be changed.This world is too corrupt to be conserved.

. . . in the storm of emotions, we can create a small, peaceful sanctuary within.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.

Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

Honor your body. Keep it in good shape. It is the most important physical tool that you have. Exercise is the meditation of the body. It allows you to feel Oneness with all of Life.

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.