Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old.

I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment.

My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

If you have a problem I find keeping it a secret makes it so much stronger.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.