Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you’re 80, your life is much freer.
It’s a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It’s like when you’re hungry, you know, it’s worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn’t do you any good, you know.
It’s better to dance than to march through life.
Violence isn’t just a conceptual thing. it could happen to your kids.
I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
Distance doesn’t exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
Mirror becomes a razor when it’s broken. A stick becomes a flute when it’s loved.
People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.
Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.
Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she’s in sorrow.
Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl’s best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying.
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people’s sufferings too. That’s the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.
I’m free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
Someday I’ll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
The people have got to trust in themselves.