The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations.

There is a nearly unerring, unconscious radar that zeros in on relationships that repeat our childhood experiences.

The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end.

Sometimes people get angry and do things they shouldn't. Things they regret.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

Sometimes you just want to write a party song.

Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.