I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Pain is inevitable as it is pareof life as pleasure is.It all depends on how you tackle it either with determination or with frustration

It took me a lifetime.

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

Frankly, I'm getting a lot of great publicity.

You know what? I did! I impressed myself just making it.

I'm always trying to make the music sexier with every album, every tour. I just try to inch my way toward just a little sexier. I know it's tough for me.

I'm actually kind of more adventurous. I like to go out on the floors and try to be incognito. Because it's more fun to be out there. So - when people do recognize you it's a little bit scarier.

Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.