“Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’”

It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

Unless you show off you’re not going to get noticed.

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you’re angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.

I’m a juvenile product of the working class, who’s best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I’ve seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.

Fame attracts lunatics.

You don’t know being a performer what kind of performance you’re going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of performance, but as I grow older I’m much more content in my own skin because when I come offstage, I have a balance in my life.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

You should never take more than you give.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

I’ve always wanted to smash a guitar over someone’s head. You just can’t do that with a piano.

Marijuana is like sex: If I don’t do it every day I get a headache.

I like marijuana because it keeps me from killing people. And I think there are a lot of people out there who are just like me. The reason it’s not legal is because most people get up in the morning and get high, then forget to go out and vote for it.

All I want to do is yoga and hike, and smoke weed. It’s funny.

You know you’re a stoner when your friends make you a Bob Marley cake. You know you smoke way too much f–king weed!

As a monk, I have to be cautious of overindulgence; it is essential to stay regulated in our habits.

I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].

It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

If someone wants to do drugs … as long as he or she isn’t corrupting minors or driving under the influence or endangering others, shouldn’t a person have that right?