Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

Someone once asked me, 'How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, 'With both hands, of course...'

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

Reality can exceed even your wildest dreams.

Before you cry and complain about your problems, be sure to show enough gratitude for your blessings in life.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

I think it's too late. I think that there's been too much. This all started with the red line, walking away from it. The inability to arm the legitimate [Bashar] Assad opposition.