I want a world without war a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Religion is induced insanity.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

Well love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself you have no power over yourself you can't even think straight.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.

For me insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination lack of creativity.

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.

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.