I wasn't good in school. I didn't do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because the Beatles did whatever they wanted to, I took that as a kid and said, 'That's what rock is.'

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

She gives the night its dreams.

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

Everybody is influenced by someone.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

Work and play is the same thing just with a different perspective.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.

The world's an Inn; and I her guest.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.

I just saw over the years that the times that we did remarkable things, it was always because players didn't want to let each other down. Players wanted to lift each other up.

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.