People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

Nobody is really an expert, as we are all still learning.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

I'm paying for a mistake I made