There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

You're going to reap just what you sow

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

Things always seem to end before they start

I'm still not sure I didn't die

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

Take a walk on the wild side.

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

I love women, I think they're great.

And no kinds of love are better than others

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

It's just a temporary thing.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

I think it's important that people don't feel alone.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

Please don't set me free Death means a lot me

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

There is only one good thing about small town You know that you want to get out

Those were different times.

When you think the night has seen your mind, that inside you're twisted and unkind, let me stand, to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands. Cause I see you; I'll be you mirror.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

I'm a humanist.

I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room.

She's my best friend, better than a dog or car.

I'm waiting'/for my man/ got twenty-six dollars in my hand/ he's never early/he's always late/ the first thing you learn/ is you always gotta' wait' -Waiting for the Man

Some people are like human tuinals

The myriad choices of his fate Set themselves out upon a plate For him to choose What had he to lose

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.