Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

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.