“You’ll never be greater than yourself.”

You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they’re poets. I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won’t invite what’s not there to begin with.

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.