You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.

You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun.

My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it.

Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.

The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it.

How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives.

Talent is truth on display.

Personal happiness is so important, most choose to let someone else take care of it.

A fool harvests his opinions in the spring.

You can’t lead people to where you’ve not been yourself. When you all get stranded, you need the knowledge of someone who knows the way!

A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

Throwing a ball is not natural, whether it's overhand or underhand.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.