I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too.

I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.