“I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.”

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Never bored, so I’ll never get old.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language.

There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about.

You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

It’s only forever, Not long at all.

I’ve come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

I will keep working on different aspects of my games. It’s not so easy, and I need to work on every stroke.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

My coaches have always been on my side, motivating me to try harder and harder every day, which is not easy.

It’s easier to lose than to win.

To accept someone when everything is going right is easy. But when things are falling apart around you and you stick together, that’s the test of a relationship. Love is when we have every reason to break up but we do not.