I was crazy back then, I must admit. I had an extreme attitude.

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.

Music is my life and my passion.

I love my music and recording people.

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

I bow to no beast.

So I left words of forgiveness to God and liars and I enjoyed my hatred.

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

There are times when you just have to show people that you're all in.

Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.