“The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‘Is that a $20 million take?’ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.”

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

I’m making a conscious choice to see challenges as beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way.

Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive.

Madness is never that far away. It’s as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

As far as I can tell, it’s just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‘I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.’

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.

If people want to criticize me, that’s their issue.

The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.

If you really look at my lyrics, nobody’s exempt. Nobody’s exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

I play in New York, man. Criticism is part of the game. You take criticism as a challenge.

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We’ve got to jump right in there with both feet.

One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.