“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.”

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

I really thought that love would save us all.

It’s better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

Music’s all right John, but you’ll never make a living out of it.

Love is needing to be loved.

It’s amazing how low you go to get high.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Happiness is inside you, not with another person.

The artist’s role isn’t to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

It’s weird not to be weird.

Tell the truth and make it rhyme.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

If you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

To discover the depth of darkness, you have to speak your mind out loud and be willing to be seen as crazy in the eyes of people because insanity is a duende moving darkness aside, showing what’s behind the black curtains.

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. … All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it’s easy to say, ‘Ah, I’ll workout tomorrow.’ But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.