I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.

If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.

You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith.

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.

The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis. The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.