People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Love is a state of being.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

I’m an emotional person.