I put out a lot of ideas in the lyrics and the way I do my things. There's a lot of ideas floatin' around and people who know what it is. People will pick it up if they know what to pick up.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.

I have the mentality that if you come in playing not to get hurt, that's when you're going to get hurt. So I play relentless.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

Why be so nasty and so rude, when I can be so fierce and so successful.

I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.