If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves.

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows.

Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.

Oh my God — I'm turning into my mother!

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.