If you're not honest about what you want, you're never going to get anywhere.

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve?

Very few changes in life areachieved without effort and acommitment to making that effort.

I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

The 50s were great because I collected stamps.