That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

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.

Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success.

God, she was beautiful. Hair a tangled mess, clothes torn, lips pale and swollen, skin streaked in dirt. And she was so damn beautiful and flawed and perfect.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".

Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

A mine-free world does not need to be a dream - together, we can make it a reality.

The spiritual path is easy. It's the only path that is.