“I’m a thinker not a talker.”

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Never bored, so I’ll never get old.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language.

There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about.

You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

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.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

It’s only forever, Not long at all.

I’ve come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race

In my madness I see your face in mine.

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

It’s difficult to talk about Pele because I didn’t see him.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.

I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog’s mouth with a crumb.

This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine, Surely such clay is more than half divine–‘Tis only fools speak evil of the clay, The very stars are made of clay like mine.