I want to be dictator.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

We have a calling: a need to be close to Nature, where she may cleanse our souls and wash away the stresses of yesterday. It is emotional recompense for the cost of living.

Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

[Muhammad] said, "...fight everyone in the way of God and kill those who disbelieve in God..."

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.