Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper

The mind speaks, though it does not have lips.The heart moves, though it does not have feet.The soul rises, though it does not have wings.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

(Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.)

I need that unexplainable spark. I need to see someone and feel 'oh-oh'. It's only happened a few times in my life.

My love for you was bulletproof but you're the one who shot me.

When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.