My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

To reduce violence, stop teaching how to find differences and teach unconditional kindness.

In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong.

It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be.