I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.

I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't.

Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

Love, and you shall be loved.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.

But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.

In a perfect world, I would do 3 weeks on 3 weeks off; so that I could always take a breather and come back to music with a fresh mind.

If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you'll be alright.