I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.

The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.

A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

Imagination is a reality.

Where your heart is, there is your love.

Library: The Temple of the Wise!

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.