Happiness is the only thing I understand.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.

It's illegal to be a terrorist in the United States.

My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith.

The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

I love the cameras and don't mind mailing in my check when I fail to pay attention and go too fast.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

Disney is a machine, and I'm grateful for it, but I feel like being part of that environment made me crave the reaction from other projects even more.

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.