I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

Love one another (His last words)

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

Fear is the cancer

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".

I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?

I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.