Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Adolescence is like cactus.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Crying has no potential for solving the problems!

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in a little bit of a rush to be an adult.

When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.