There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

I don't believe in competing, because there's room for everyone. You have to compete with yourself, because your duty to grow as a human being and keeping your humility is much more important than your music career. You can get money, women, travels, but all that's an illusion.

When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.