Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence.

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing..

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my bo….

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it..

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..

I take things too seriously..

Wanderlust is incurable..

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

How can I dispose of myself with it?.

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction..

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us..

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around..

If anyone can achieve the impossible it’s you. Please, please, get it again..

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have..

The bravest are the tenderest..

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over..

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here..