You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Think for yourself and question authority.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

The universe is an intelligence test.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Science is all metaphor.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly.

Whenever in doubt turn off your mind relax float downstream.

Civilization is unbearable but it is less unbearable at the top.

One cannot evolve from ones robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.

They've outlawed the No. 1 vegetable on the planet.

Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

In the same way I am addicted to puddings - the sweeter the better - I have become addicted to the daily routines my Pilates and Gyrotonic guru, Nada, puts me through.

I hate to be general, but I rely on Andrew Keenan-Bolger for all things music. Every season, he releases a mixtape on his blog of the most incredible and current music. I download it instantly, and it gets me through the season and keeps me educated musically.

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.

If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.

You could be an 18-year-old girl in Tokyo wondering how you could ever break into fashion or beauty, so you follow your favourite designer or editor, see what their day comprises, where they go, who they meet, how they do it... If I were setting up my own label today, I would definitely do it through Instagram.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.

We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scriptures mandate to us is Weep with them that weep. Romans 1215 KJV

Average band with a great drummer sounds great great band with an average drummer sounds average.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects.

That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people do is cheerlead and drink sodas on the weekend. So I think it'll be great if it can be seen by a few people at least.

When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business.

I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.