And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

Do you know the amount of evil done by well-meaning humans? Oodles. Do you know the amount done by ill-meaning devils? Infinitesimal.

When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification ...

Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.