People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

I wouldn’t wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don’t think it’s necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Water is my drink.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

We are so very ‚umble.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

I became a beach bum.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

I’m no genius.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.