Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Live for each second without hesitation

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.

Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.

Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

I don't want to interfere with my successor's presidency.

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.