It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen. " "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
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.
[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.
There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor.
I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.