John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky.

When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky