Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

It's not easy to define poetry.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

There is nothing so stable as change.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.