The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

Strawberry fields forever

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I took a step back, shaking my head, wishing I could place a gnarly black hex on him. My daddy taught me better than that.

Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.

Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

I’m very shy, I feel very awkward.

Excellent conquerors do not engage.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.