Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

I have to be seen to be believed.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I like pin-up girls. I’m more of a boy than a girl. I’m not a lesbian, though – not before a sambuca anyway.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.