I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

There is hope for survival of life.

Listen with your heart, not your brain. the heart only knows TRUTH!

I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest.

The audience requires not information but drama.

In our exterior life, we can be only one person. But in our imagination, we can be anyone, anywhere.

I'm not just buying a car... I'm buying a lifestyle!

Who said nights were for sleep?

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.