What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

The benefit of carrying the entire world on your shoulders was that you didn’t have to stare it in the face.

The duty of the one who wants to be silent is to be silent, period! Give little thought to the cacophony of the masses when silence is the best option and silence will speak for itself

I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

I think music is such an extension of who we are, and the fact that I've gone through as much as I have, good, bad, and ugly, has really helped to shape the songs that I picked.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don't cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends.

When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck's hands.

Be kind. It's very needed to be respectful to all.