I hate the past – especially my own past.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.‘

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

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.‘

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 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.

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