My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Donald Trump seems to do a good job mentioning his own name.

To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

When I said "the pocket of the banks," it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.

I have to say, the other day I was reading some negative comments, and I was thinking they were really funny. So I guess they don't anymore.

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

You've got a lot to look forward to in Heaven. Compared to what's in store for you in Heaven, your current pain and problems are petty.