“When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.”

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

“You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”

“It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.”

“All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.”

“All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.”

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”