Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

The wealthy do not focus on day-to-day short-term survival. Successful people focus on wealth building assets.

When you love someone's everything with your everything then you truly are in love.

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Tonight I just need my guitar.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

I finally feel content with my work. My fruit has started to ripen. I'm able to dissect emotion properly and distill it into a song that reverberates in a truthful place.

Biotech crops are not a solution to solve hunger in Africa or elsewhere.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.