Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your friend.

A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

Brothers don't shake hands. Brothers gotta hug.

Genius is the art of taking pains

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy.

Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

When I was a kid, I'd spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.