This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

The love received is the love that is saved.

I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

If you ever want to love someone, love yourself unconditionally first.

A dead plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one

In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined.

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

The mind creates with thoughts and logic, but it sees with light. The heart creates with the emotions and feelings and dreaming, but it sees with darkness.

Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be men in their next incarnations

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.