If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

I didn't just see a child in my dreams—I felt it in my heart.

True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

You cannot evolve unless you are willing to change.

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

I will always play "Stand Back" anyway. And Prince will always he standing behind me every time I do.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.