When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.

The inner struggle against one’s own weaknesses is the central drama of life.

For the curious, I write

* What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

Every man has got to know his limitations.

The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.

Cotton candy is the perfect snack for when I'm in the mood to eat dry, scratchy fabric.

Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.