A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder" lover you should have come over-
Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.
My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people.
We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.
Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.
Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.
I can't think of anybody we toured with that had more impact on us than Queen.
I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?
I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.