It would be great to be super-human, to give the fans just what they want.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

People may hurt you but God will heal you. People may humiliate you but God will honour you. People may judge you but God will justify you.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.