“I love playing ego and insecurity combined.”

I’m making a conscious choice to see challenges as beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way.

Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive.

Madness is never that far away. It’s as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

As far as I can tell, it’s just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‘I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.’

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

A better you means a better universe.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It’s a weird combination of elements.

I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.

Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.

The combination of old and new is what every wrestling organization should be like. That way, you have a chance to match up the legends in dream main events.

I don’t understand why it has to be either – or – either socialism or democracy. Why can’t we combine things to get the best of each system?