“Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you’ll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.”

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I’ve got.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

None of you will ever know what I am thinking.

Kids don’t care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have.

There’s good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad.

Just because it’s all you want, doesn’t mean it’s all you need.

Peace, love, empathy.

I’m a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

Don’t expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.

Rather be dead then cool.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.

They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.

If you read, you’ll judge.

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.

I’m starting to see players copy what I do. I’m flattered.

It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.

At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‘Can Lou Do It?’ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.