“It’s better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them care.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

Modern music is people who can’t think signing artists who can’t write songs to make records for people who can’t hear.

The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.

The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich. That leaves me making music. But we can’t talk about that.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

To me absurdity is the only reality.

There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That’s why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I’m searching for, or searching to express.

The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

It feels like I’ve been singing since I was born, and I have so many great memories with my family and friends centred around music.