It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.

What I say is what I say, I don't always say the right thing, I don't always say the politically correct thing. I don't have any regrets about that.

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.

Why don't you swallow razor blades?

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

if they make me watch that movie one more time, I will fall down on my knees and beg for mercy