I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Live for each second without hesitation

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

There is no currency that buys great treasures in Heaven like obedience.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is.

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you.

...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.