Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

If you don't like the news go out and make some of your own.

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

Seuls les poissons morts suivent le courant' - Only dead fish follow the current

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Bought the president the Louis presidential briefcase Never been a cheapskate

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

There is something f-king unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them.

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.