Philosophy Quotes

"You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me."

"I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little."

"I don't think that my tongue-in-cheekness will ever go away. I guess it's just a part of my personality. I always want to keep some type of element of fun to the music as well. If one song is darker or talking about a sad subject, I don't want to make a whole album of that, of being a downer. I don't want to make a whole album of being too uppity."

"My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it."

"To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway."

"I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us."

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

"The march of the human mind is slow."

"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity."

"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's."

"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."

"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big."

"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big."

"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."

"Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?'"

"We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul."

"You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox."

"It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else."