The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Carving your own path gets you to greatness quicker than following someone else's trail.

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music

In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

Everybody’s got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don’t got is power.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Truth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith.

I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their circulation. I abhor racism and cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass.