I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

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.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

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

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

I write all of my own speeches.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

My life is mine to remember.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

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

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.