Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.

As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish I wish he'd stay away.

He has to come to it on his own.

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.

You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?