Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.

No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

Praising all alike, is praising none.

I need a prison in order to dream of being free.

In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.