Success breeds the excitement to continue going.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen wind and weather permitting.

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

I think when you have spent the money that we have, it's bound to bring it's own pressure. The players have shown that they can handle that though. (on Chelsea)

What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's ALL that counts.

In the earlier days I did most of the song writing by myself, and I got to a place in my life where I felt it was necessary to go outside my box and get some outside inspiration.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.