Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

Strawberry fields forever

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I felt something inside me rush up from tailbone to fingertips and explode in a fierce, joyful tide: that berserk rage that had nowhere to go until now.

Greedy people are poor in the mind.

Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?

In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

I want to be contributing and working with people that I like and love, and this was the perfect combination.

It's really easy to get PR with no results & it actually feels like you're really actually cool, but in a year you'll still have nothing.

You simply cannot hang a millionaire in America.