I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I try to be funny and not ignorant.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

We’re a phenomenally snobby society, and it’s such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.