I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

The spiritual fire defines the strength of faith.

Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

You don't get lucky in sport.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

What are days for? Days are where we live.

"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."