I hate the past – especially my own past.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

All of my favorite people – people I really trust – none of them were cool in their younger years.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I’m not interested in. So, as far as I’m concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don’t know. When I know, I don’t care because I knew how it was.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.