Please remember, that even in your darkest moments, you still have the choice to focus your energy on the positive and create a better life.
You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives
I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down. . . Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.
Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.
Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.
Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.
I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.