I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.

I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.

It's quite a mistake to think that music fans don't work on major record companies. Sometimes, you know, you do find some good people on corporates, among all the infidels.

I'm always very interested in playing in front of different kinds of audiences. It always affects the way you play.

Don't be afraid to start over again. This time you're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience.

Maybe I do have a few more dresses, but I'm just like everyone else.

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.