I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular.

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.

Playing a song changes a song. Every night a song becomes something else on stage.

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God

I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.