The future takes care of itself, and we should instead focus on taking care of the present. Try to make it pleasant and happy.

If you want to be happy, then be happy. Misery is a choice.

Tomorrow is a blank canvas and you are the artist.

Worship means respecting all of God’s creation.

The only person who can pull you down is yourself. If you choose to pull yourself down, please don’t complain.

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance

Two examples of irony:...a cheap knock-off of a Chinese Ming vase…made in China....getting murdered in a graveyard.

Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.