People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

Let us not talk about problems. Let us think and talk about solutions.

You are a gold mine of potential power. You have to dig to find it and make it real.

My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments

I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.

I think there is a spiritual hunger, and I think that people are really tired of getting kind of a two-dimensional take on religion in most of the media.

Well, duh. You're cuter than she is." He said it like he might say, Grass is green or, Gravity works. Something warm opened up inside my chest. It was a nice feeling.