It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

Love and loyalty run deeper than blood

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

We need a new concept of reality and a new set of values for things to change in a positive direction. LSD could help to generate such a new concept.

I always wanted to be loved.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.

Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

I especially like Ron. Sometimes you feel so sorry for him because he's always getting stuff from his brothers. And he's got a fat, lazy rat.