I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Sneakers are not my thing.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

Because I want to be treated as equals, not sequels.

Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects, 
and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.

There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways.