If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women.

Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.

I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.

I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.

If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.

love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.

I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.

There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)

Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.

The sooner the rebirth, the prettier the corpse.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

Competition is good and has served us well.

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

You can have talent and strength, but the most important is determination.

Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.

Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.