I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

The love received is the love that is saved.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young again and for once for once you are happy

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

Pain withheld becomes hate, pain shared becomes love.

And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

Don't be afraid to dream of achieving the impossible.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.