I've always admired people who are over-prepared.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.

It's better to lose something than never to have had

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.