Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

There is no greater crime than a crime against humanity. There is no greater crime against humanity than usury. The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.

For success, attitude is often more important than education.

If beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, then surely I would have to had been blind to not see it in her.

Why get bitter towards those who don't believe in your dreams, when they don't even believe in theirs?

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.

The more I take care of myself, the more prosperous I am.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.