I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

These are all personal crises, I’m sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It’s as simple as that.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I owe my solitude to other people.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

My friends, there are no friends.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Nobody knows me.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

O, had I but followed the arts!

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

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.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

It’s easy to forget who you are.