God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

God does not take sides. He is always on the side of the winner

When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury), they received a peek into their future.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

I have a lot of Jordans, a lot of Nikes, a lot of Blazers.