I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.

It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

Artist, be brave! Go and make the most of what you do best!

Zombies dont mess with other zombies.

It is very rewarding to walk out on stage, feeling the love and reception.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

Failure is... the highway to success.

If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber