This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

I am just one human being.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

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

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.