"What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted."

“The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.”

“I don't want to make pompous, serious films.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.”

“A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.”

“I would never want to kill a human being.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

“You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.”

“Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses”

“The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.”