“The key to success is emotional stability.”

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

I never invest in anything that I don’t understand.

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

It’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who’s been swimming naked.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.

If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

I don’t deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

Each role you play, they set a bar of challenges that you meet. And in the past, I’ve played characters that emotionally expressed themselves a bit more in a physical way. It was a joy, actually.

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

I really like older British guys – I don’t think any of them would ever have a problem with crying in front of a woman or saying “I love you” or “You hurt me” or emotional stuff like that.

It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.

I like to just make flex music. So when I do make emotional music, it’s hard for me, because I feel like I’m cliche. But I guess cliche is the best thing sometimes, because it’s real.