You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue bring some sanity back into the financial sector and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Sickness insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

Disease insanity and death were the angels that attended my cradle and since then have followed me throughout my life.

I was fantasising about my own death I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played I was at that level of insanity.

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house your car your boat your safety deposit box your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order sanity and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else but you have a failure pal and they don't want to know nothing about you!

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay then it's you.

What garlic is to salad insanity is to art.

There's the Hollywood sign there's Griffith Observatory there's the great amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.