“I don’t think anybody’s necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you’ve said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.”

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don’t know how to feel good about the work you’re doing or the life you’re leading.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

Everything I’ve done has felt very natural, and it’s happened because it’s happened.

Love is not blind. It simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

You gotta be careful: don’t say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn’t mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

I’m not Blockbuster Boy.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.

I hope someday to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.

When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn’t have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that’s great.

It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labelled.

People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.

I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.

It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say ‘thank you’ for an honour like the Nobel Prize.

I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.

So, pretty much you approach the songs in pretty much the same way.

I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.

People will ask me, “How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?” My answer is always: I don’t change anything about the story itself.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

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