If you really believe and really make a commitment, anything can happen.

The past can be changed by the future.

Rock saved me. You can break drums and scream out loud - if you do that in the street you get arrested.

A lot of things inspire me - especially pain.

I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer I couldn't refuse, so that brought me back to music again.

Everything is legit onstage. You can go crazy. I can express my anger. I can cry. Whoa, this is the coolest place!

If I die, I'm going to die onstage.

I wanted to have the strongest band. I was always looking for the strongest characters.

If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!

A girl doesn't notice unfairness until she falls in love

If there are no roads you can walk, break down the walls!

Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them then move outwards one small step at a time.

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

What I'd like to do now - well, what I'd like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.

The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.

I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.