Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

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.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Football is all about fans.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I can handle pain.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

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

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

If music be the food of love, play on.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

My life is mine to remember.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I was a super once – an extra – in ‚Die Fledermaus,‘ and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.