All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.

to have to combat one’s instincts—that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.

Your soul may be trampled in times of troubles. But if your spirit is strong, you will survive.

The devil does not stay where music is.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.

Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.