I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Only the good die young.

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Pure mind.Pure body.Pure spirit.

I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain.

He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor--and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.

[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.