Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?

I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here

I've never met anyone that is their image.

You could either go the traditional way or the other way. I went the other way.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.