What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

Our behaviors reflect what we believe. If we want to change our behavior, we have to change our beliefs.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Patience is like ice cold water running through your veins, but our love will be immense

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.

I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.

The Obama experiment has failed.

It's a bomb. Just like you.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.