Life is too short to be sharing its precious moments with the crowd.

Don’t look outside in the world or in wilderness to find the peace, look inside your heart, where it resides.

All humans are born with raw creativity ability, but not all creativities are created equal.

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home.

I tried to find myself and become a happy person without all the drugs and alcohol. And then I got back to Stockholm and I got pissed one night and had to sing.

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.

I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.