Everyone needs a fantasy.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.

But oftentimes I'm asked, why? Why do you care what happens outside of America?

In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true. ­

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.