To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so.

When monetary dealing in religion stops, the religion will manifest its splendor!

Kindness is something that should always be passed on.

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

The way I've been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.

Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.