Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

Rumble is the best instrumental ever.

In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.