It's better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles left for itself.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion, " she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort, " I say.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view.

Beauty and sadness always go together.

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

I like simple, I like quality, and I like less. Do I like a certain aesthetic? Yeah.