We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

I think and that is all that I am.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

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.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I’m an emotional person.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.