I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

Beware of people who tell you it can't be done. They want to remain on the market alone

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was

...thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

Happiness, at my age, is breathing

You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee. I will say mee siam mai hum.

I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.