Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

Well, I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that.

The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

Your wits make others witty.

When I'm not paralytic, I like to play golf.

It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.

The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom.

You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.