Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

The easiest mistake to make is to lose sight of your goal. Failure is temporary, but quitting is permanent. Choose wisely.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.