I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Too many people die in our world today because, they don’t eat well, rest well, play well and live well.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.

There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.

When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style.

I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna.