The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Love can conquer every hateful heart.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.