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I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

Good shoes - they're the ultimate finishing touch. In fact, we actually joke in my family that your shoes have to be shined before you can leave the house.

The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

God uses us in spite of who we are, not because of it.

I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

The best way to use the auto-tune is not to! And that's what I do: I do not use auto-tune!

Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.

Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?

I have a lot of doubters. I use that as motivation.

Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.