"In this world there are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation."

"Every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe."

"Boldness, at first a stranger to be treated with caution, soon becomes a friend, then a partner, and finally taken for granted, as is the daily relationship between married people."

"First with the head and then with the heart."

"When a man knows somebody cares he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul clean and lit."

"It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!"

"Sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them"

"Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state."

"I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about it."

"The imagination is always the best torturer."

"Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man."

"How I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed."

"I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream."

"It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something."

"It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss."

"The older you get, the more it means."

"I can, therefore I am."

"The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need."

"Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music."

"No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work."

"Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous."

"When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s."

"Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves."

"I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't."