My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

And as a writer, one of the things that I’ve always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

OVOXO will always be there.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

Genius, when young, is divine.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

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.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer – I don’t know if they’d ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He’s not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.