Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.

I think getting stoned has made me buy a lot of bad albums, because when I'm stoned I think everything is amazing.

That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

I like it when people who aren't so attractive, or they have a whole lot of hurdles to get over, I like it when they dress up and they look presentable. That, to me, just touches me.

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.

There's no male Oprah.

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.