It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

I think in the ’70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the ’60s as ‚ideal‘ was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

The secret to humor is surprise.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down – oh my God, it’s a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I’m gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

Sometimes I don’t use the words ‚will‘ and ‚want‘ in the right way. The German word ‚will‘ is the English word ‚want,‘ so that’s a little bit of the problem.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, ‚We’ve got to evacuate. There’s a hurricane’s coming.‘

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

We live in a bewildering world.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

The other day I… uh, no, that wasn’t me.

Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

I never know what day it is. Never, ever, ever.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.