“When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

Destructiveness cannot bring happiness; destruction is against the law of creation. The law of creation is to be creative.

Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.

Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots.

Love in its purest form is a sharing of joy. It asks nothing in return, it expects nothing. Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.

Crowds create illusions.

Yes, I would like you to love yourself, because unless you love yourself you cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself.

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.

Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests.

Love is wild; its whole beauty is in its wildness. It comes like a breeze with great fragrance, fills your heart, and suddenly where there was a desert there is a garden full of flowers.

You need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.

Be – don’t try to become.

No thought, no mind, no choice – just being silent, rooted in yourself.

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that’s what separates the legends from the regular artists. It’s all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

I’m no longer an artist, I’m a business partner.

There are obviously so many artists that are very inspiring, but I can’t say that they like – that I have someone in mind that is like a creative direction of where I want to go as an artist. I think I’m just doing my own thing.

Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven’t looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.

I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what’s happening, it’s so much easier for us to write a song that’s specific to them.

Just because you’re an artist doesn’t give you an excuse to be an asshole.