Mind Quotes

This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

Every mind is at least as heavy as mine.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

The dreams that you hold for your future are what you dream about at night. They're always at the back of your mind. They're what your heart desires. They keep you going. Accept reality and have a backup plan, but always follow your dreams no matter what.

The idea of calling out a performer for being performative is mind-numbingly redundant as an exercise. Performing is a performer's job.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

I would rather be stricken blind than to live without expression of mind.

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.

I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.

Pay no mind to those who talk behind your back, it simply means that you are two steps ahead.

I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal. Trying to find peace of mind and still preserve my soul.

Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.

It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.