I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

I am not crying, but have tears in my heart.

They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

Teaching has definitely become a big part of my life in the past ten plus years. As it often does for many dedicated players. Because you can have some great gigs.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.

I just wanted to be a guy on the radio and I wanted to succeed, and I wanted a situation where I could be honest.

Humans are not really very humane.