Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

How long should you try? Until.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.