I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive..

I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be wate….

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do..

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

‎A change of work is the best rest..

The Self says ‘I AM’–as in the very grand sayings of Christ, especially in the Gospel of John, in which he says in the state of onenenss with Yahweh ….

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

All the backstories are there but not talked about..

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love..

I don't do live things..

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it..

Nobody understands your life, but you..

It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does..

It's not the words but the music that counts..

It is poetry that changes everything..

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside..

In business for yourself, but not by yourself..

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside..