Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

Robert Smith is a whingebag.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

Don't base your decision on the opinions of those who don't want to see you grow.

As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

You have to be daring and make something that doesn't look like anybody else.

Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.

We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.